Mehmet Solmaz is a British–Turkish journalist. As News Desk Coordinator at Turkish newspaper Daily Sabah, he covers political and diplomatic developments in Turkey and the region.

Plumbing the Deep State

[caption id="attachment_55244586" align="alignnone" width="592"] An Ergenekon prisoner being driven in an armored police vehicle waves at protestors…

Turkey, The Loner State

[caption id="attachment_55245250" align="alignnone" width="620"] Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attends the second working meeting of…

Erdoğan’s Mandatory Measures

[caption id="attachment_55245986" align="alignnone" width="594"] People of Reyhanlı (in southern Turkey) chant slogans as riot police block them on…

Between Berlin and Ankara

[caption id="attachment_55246649" align="alignnone" width="594"] German Chancellor Angela Merkel leads Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to…

Erdoğan Turns to Europe

[caption id="attachment_55248527" align="alignnone" width="620"] German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan…

Ankara Cautiously Defends Crimean Tatars

[caption id="attachment_55248970" align="alignnone" width="620"] A family of Crimean Tartars arrive in the Ukrainian city of Lviv from Simferopol in…

Party Pilots

[caption id="attachment_55249540" align="alignnone" width="620"] Turkish President Abdullah Gül (front C), Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip…

New Representatives for Turkey’s Kurds

[caption id="attachment_55250221" align="alignnone" width="620"] Families of Ozgur and Berat Cetiner (15), who were kidnapped by the PKK, stage a sit…

Turkey’s President: New and Improved?

[caption id="attachment_55250567" align="alignnone" width="620"] Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks to Turkish expatriates at an…