At the AKP's 5th regular congress held at the Arena Sports Complex in Ankara, Prime Minister and Konya Deputy Ahmet Davutoğlu was re-elected as party leader with the votes of 1353 of 1445 AKP delegates. (Agencies)

After President Erdogan passed the baton to Prime Minister Davutoğlu at the extraordinary congress last year, this congress was important for the elections. The party's true leader President Erdogan, although not being on the head of the party, has the sole authority on all decisions related to the party.

On Wednesday morning, 2nd of September, 2015, the bodies of two boys from Syria were found lying on the coast of Mugla. Also, the mother of the brothers (Aylan, age 3 years, and Ghalib, age 5 years) drowned in the same sea. This painful incident grabbed the attention of all the Turkish and international media after which the rulers of the Western countries expressed their feelings of "embarrassment" and shed tears over this incident.

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