Monthly Archive: October 2020
President Tayyip Erdoğan and his election partner MHP (Nationalist Movement Party) leader Devlet Bahçeli reiterate that there will be no early elections. The election is expected to take place in June 2023. But DEVA...
Istanbul 14th High Criminal Court rejected on Oct. 13 the Constitutional Court’s decision that journalist and politician Enis Berberoğlu should be retried in a case that resulted in the dropping of his post as...
Turkey’s official statistics office, TÜİK, revealed Oct. 12 the unemployment rate for July at 13.4 percent, unchanged from the same period a year earlier. TÜİK also said employment in the country fell by nearly...
Turkish Cypriots are to go to the polls for the Presidential election on Sunday, October 11th. The election was originally scheduled to be held six months ago but was delayed due to the Covid-19...
Upon its foundation in 2001, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) brought a new breath to politics. With that wave of hope, it took power alone, taking 34 percent of the votes in 2002....
Turkish Cyprus has partly reopened Varosha (Maraş), the resort town that was shut down after the separation of the Turkish and Greek sides of the island in 1974. A group of people entered the...
In recent days, on different occasions, there have been several claims about young people’s world views and ideological stances. However, if young people were moving away from a religion-influenced worldview, we would expect the ...
The government revealed its new economic program for 2021-2023 on Sept. 29. The long-term goals of such programs hardly go beyond being a wish list worldwide. This is because the economy is an equation...
Only a few hours President Tayyip Erdoğan delivers his speech for the opening of the legislative year of parliament on Oct. 1, the European Union (EU) leaders will start a meeting with Turkey on...