The Turkish lira is rebounding after Qatar pledged US$15 billion in investments to help Turkey’s economy The currency strengthened some 3 percent against the dollar on Aug. 16, trading at around 5.75 per dollar, hours [ More … ]
German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier has sharply criticized U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs and sanctions policies, saying such measures were destroying jobs and growth and that Europe would not bow to U.S. pressure regarding Iran. [ More … ]
Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak says effective Central Bank is among main policy targets of new era. The operational range of the Turkish Central Bank will be expanded through strengthening policy synchronization and unclogging [ More … ]
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan unveiled the new cabinet under the new presidential system, saying the governance system will make the executive branch more efficient. Erdoğan announced new Vice President as Fuat Oktay. Here’s the full [ More … ]
Turkey will sell four corvette ships to Pakistan’s navy, Defence Minister Nurettin Canikli was quoted as saying by state-run Anadolu agency on Thursday. Turkey said last year it signed a memorandum of understanding for the [ More … ]
By: Nagehan Alci* Turkey has entered a new period of five years with the presidential and parliamentary elections held on June 24. During this period, a new system will come into effect, in which the [ More … ]
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said on Sunday that no discrepancies were reported during the elections so far. The delegation started its on-site observation in Lieutenant Kalmaz Primary School in capital [ More … ]
Ankara says it will continue to target the PKK headquarters in northern Iraq until all threats posed by the terrorist group are eliminated Turkey’s objective to drain the PKK terror swamp in Qandil mountains in [ More … ]
Dr Said Elhaj* Millions of Turkish voters are heading to the polls on June 24 to take part in the early presidential and parliamentary elections which are viewed as the most important, sensitive and complicated [ More … ]
Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Wan Azizah Wan Ismail has said that Turkey and Malaysia needs to be economically strong to help the Muslim Ummah (community). Malaysia is willing to work with Turkey to help refugees, [ More … ]
The U.S. Senate took a step late Monday to block the delivery of F-35 warplanes to Turkey with an amendment in a $716 billion defense policy bill. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) bill containing [ More … ]
By: Yasin Aktay* As we rapidly head toward the June 24 elections, though the harsh criticisms made by presidential candidates about one another drop to a frustrating level at times, we can consider it from [ More … ]
BY: Yasin Aktay* We had previously stated that the image of Turkey reflected on the screens of Saudi Arabia and the image of Saudi Arabia reflected on Turkey’s screens are not pleasant at all nowadays. [ More … ]
By: İbrahim Karagül Foreign Affairs magazine published an issue with the cover reading, “Is democracy dying?” Based on the regress and weakening of democracy worldwide, the theme “the end of the period of democracy” is [ More … ]
Turks living abroad cast the first votes in the June 24 presidential and parliamentary elections on Thursday, officially starting the election race of candidates and Turkish political parties. Voting began at airports and border gates [ More … ]
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