President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan promised tax exemption for some 850,000 along with cutting public spending in the Economic Reform Package he announced on March 12, bringing Vice President Fuat Oktay to the top seat of the to-be-founded Economic Coordination Council. “Along with macroeconomic policies, a chain of structural measures and transformation are conditional to continue
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has revealed that Turkey is in diplomatic contact with Egypt to repair ties that were strained since 2013. “Our intelligence, diplomatic and economic cooperation process with Egypt continues. There is no problem. [The contract] is not at the highest level but one level below. What we want is to continue this
Egypt took into account the sensitivities of Turkey in the specifications of its recent tender for hydrocarbon search licenses in the Mediterranean Sea, triggering fresh diplomacy traffic among Athens, Cairo and Ankara.The area of 24 blocks put on tender on Feb. 18 ends on the southern border of the continental shelf declared by Turkey to
Pope Francis’ visit to Iraq on 5-8 March was important both historically and politically as its effects could extend over a long period. This first visit by a Pope to Iraq came at a time when the waters in the Middle East were heating up again. Some commentators argued that the pope also visited Arbil,
İbrahim Kalın, President Tayyip Erdoğan’s spokesperson and chief security and foreign policy advisor, has signaled revision on Turkey’s foreign policy. Such revision seems to be focused on putting relations with the U.S. administration under Joe Biden into the track.So remarks by Kalın during a March 8 interview with Bloomberg on a wide range of issues
Canan Güllü, a prominent Turkish women rights activist, has been granted the “Women of Courage” by the Department of State of the U.S. “Canan has been a steadfast champion of gender equality, working to promote women’s participation in governance, labor force, and education,” the U.S. State Department said in a March 7 social media post
President Tayyip Erdoğan’s expectation from U.S. President Joe Biden is not limited to a phone call as he actually wants to go back to the good old days when he was hosted by Donald Trump and make statements starting with “My friend Biden,” as if there weren’t any problems between the two countries. He wants
At least 11 Turkish soldiers, including a lieutenant general, were killed in a helicopter crash on March 4 in Southeastern Turkey, according to Defense Ministry. Lieutenant General Osman Erbaş was the commander of the Turkish 8th Army Corps based in the Eastern city of Elazığ. Two soldiers were injured in the crash that occurred due
Turkey’s independent media outlets challenging the pro-government mainstream in terms of readership have yet another challenge among others: Google and Facebook preferences. “Google gives 90.6% of the top slots in its highest volume news-related searches to Turkey’s pro-government media,” found a recent report by the International Press Institute (IPI). The main beneficiaries of the Google