Western countries supported the military coup in Egypt and chose not to intervene in Syria. Are they about to fail another test of humanity? Western diplomacy is facing a new challenge from the Middle East. [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia spent almost $27 million on U.S. lobbying in 2017, nearly triple the amount during former President Obama’s last year in office, according to figures compiled by a Washington-based think tank, Lobbying expenditures jumped from [ More … ]
Apple Watch worn by Saudi journalist may have transmitted evidence of his death, Turkish paper reports Missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi may have recorded his own death, a Turkish newspaper reported Saturday morning. Khashoggi turned [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has welcomed Turkey to search the Saudi consulate in Istanbul following the disapperance of prominent journalist Jamal Khashoggi who entered the mission earlier this week. In an exclusive interview with Bloomberg, published on Friday, [ More … ]
Washington Post columnist was last seen entering his country’s consulate in Istanbul, his fiancee says Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist, has disappeared after visiting his country’s consulate in Istanbul on [ More … ]
BY: Burhanettin Duran The Trump administration’s policy of economic selfishness doesn’t just make the U.S. look like a vulgar and isolated superpower, but at the same time encourages the world’s leading economies to work more [ More … ]
BY: Erdal Tanas Karagöl The Gezi Park events, the Dec. 17-25 judicial coup in 2013, the July 15 coup attempt in 2016 and the latest attack on the economy through the exchange rate, which Turkey [ More … ]
Vladimir Putin has repeatedly spoken of this possibility, subject to study, calculations, says Kremlin spokesman Russia is aiming towards using national currencies in trade with Turkey, instead of dollars or euros, said a Kremlin spokesman [ More … ]
The rise in the exchange rate of the dollar, which has rallied in recent days, is ongoing. It is known that political reasons remain in the background of this rise. The last apparent reason is [ More … ]
‘Anyone doing business with Iran will NOT be doing business with the United States,’ US president says Companies doing business with Iran will be barred from the United States, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, [ More … ]
The turbulence in relations with the U.S. may perhaps be viewed as a new difficulty in Turkey’s foreign policy. Hence, the majority see this as a link in the chain of problems that Turkey is [ More … ]
Economic penalties target Tehran’s acquisition of US dollars, precious metals trade, transactions related to Iran’s Rial. The first round of the U.S. pre-nuclear deal sanctions on Iran, largely targeting the country’s banking sector, went into [ More … ]
Egypt’s foreign debt rose to $88.2 billion in the third quarter of the 2017-2018 fiscal year, up from $73.9 billion in the same period the previous year, central bank data showed on Monday. Egypt’s fiscal [ More … ]
On July 1, 2012, when the Egyptian military junta – theoretically – handed over power to the elected authority, the foreign reserves then was only $ 15.5 billion against $ 36 billion early 2011 when [ More … ]
Egypt’s military is as politically entrenched as its Brazilian counterpart was during the “intense repression” period of its military dictatorship, wrote Robert Springborg. As Brazil’s politicians seem ever more corrupt and incapable of governing, the [ More … ]
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