The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund), has announced that newly founded VisCoran İlaç will produce Russian Sputnik V vaccine in Turkey with local partners.The production will start in the upcoming months at several facilities, the company said, one day after Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca announced that Sputnik V will be
Let’s be realistic. The Turkey-U.S. relations can not go the way they used to do after so much damage. Going back is out of question. It is not just because U.S. President Joe Biden named the 1915 killings of Armenians “genocide”. It is not just because that the issue came forward because the Biden administration
As the pandemic hits with the third wave, the scientists exploit the year-long data to dig deeper into the pandemic and learn its dynamics. While Turkey displayed a relatively succesful performance at the early stages of the pandemic, it is one of the countries with the largest number of daily infections at the moment. Daily
U.S. President Joe Biden declared that his country recognizes April 24 as the day of remembrance of the Armenian genocide. Thus, he has become the second U.S. President to call the 1915 Armenian deportation and the massacres that followed the “Armenian genocide”. Earlier in 1981, U.S. President Ronald Reagan had called the 1915 deportation the
U.S. President Joe Biden called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on April 23, a communication awaited since Biden came to power on Jan. 20 amid a pile of problems between the two countries. The two leaders “agreed on working together to expand cooperation based on strategic nature of bilateral relations, mutual interests,” read a statement
I congratulate April 23 National Sovereignty and Children’s Day “against all odds.”I say odds because President Tayyip Erdoğan did not use the surname of Turkey’s founding father, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the first president of the country, in his message celebrating the “biggest day of the nation.” (Atatürk translates as “Father of Turks). I do
The last strike that led President Tayyip Erdoğan to fire Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan with a late-night decree in the early hours of April 21 should be her acceptance of selling disinfection goods to the ministry by her husband’s company on the grounds of “below market price.” Pekcan was not a prominent minister in the
The lawyers of Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) former co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş held an online press conference on April 18 over the “Kobani incidents case” that will start to be heard in Ankara on April 26. In the case to be held in Ankara’s 22nd High Criminal Court, 108 defendants will be tried together with Demirtaş
A scandal concerning human trafficking to Germany with “grey passports” normally provided for short-term duties abroad on demand by authorities -including municipalities- broadens with new cases. A prosecutor from Germany’s Hannover has launched a probe into one person, as parliaments of Lower Saxony and Bavaria also discussing the issue.Last week it was reported in the
The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB) chair Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu posted a Twitter message on April 15 in a rare opposition to a government decision despite his support for the government.“Problems of our companies have increased due to the pandemic. First of all, Shorter Employment Allowance needs to be restored,” said the