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I was at the National Day reception at the Chinese Embassy in Ankara when Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Öncü Keçeli made a statement “it is an internal U.S. matter” regarding the federal corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams in which Türkiye is at the center. Unlike the Saudi Arabian reception, the entire Turkish military
Turkish Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BDDK) Deputy Chairman Mustafa Aydın is under scrutiny for accepting substantial wedding gifts from bank executives whom he is responsible for regulating. Treasury and Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek, upon returning from a trip to the United States, immediately ordered an investigation into the matter, stating that “necessary actions will
Greek government assured Turkish government that “the violations will not recur,” Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said after contacting them in person following Greek coast guard vessels’ incursion into Turkish territorial waters off Bodrum and Datça, allegedly in pursuit of migrant smugglers. The Ministry of Interior released the following statement on their “X” (formerly Twitter) account
In a single move, Israel turned Hezbollah’s inter-organizational communication pagers into bombs that exploded at the same time, disabling at least 3,000 Hezbollah cadres, and killing at least nine people. It didn’t even need to know the names of the Hezbollah-affiliated people to be eliminated; now it knows all of them: It is enough for
When asked what would change for Türkiye if Donald Trump or Kamala Harris won the presidential elections in the US on November 5th, I can hear many of you saying “Nothing”. To understand, we need to look at which of today’s problems in Türkiye-US relations would be “normalized” – let’s not say solved – under
As far as we know, the first military sanctions applied by the US to Türkiye began on December 11, 1974. The apparent reason was the Cyprus operation on July 20, 1974. The real reason was different. The main reason for the US Congress’s decision to cut off military weapons and equipment sales to Türkiye was
Turkish opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Özgür Özel stated that under current conditions, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan cannot run for another term, however, if he seeks re-election, the deadline for him to “knock the CHP’s door” for a compromise would be November 2025. Answering YetkinReport’s questions, Özel said, “He shouldn’t come after November 2025.
Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz unveiled the Medium Term Program (MTP), outlining Ankara’s economic roadmap for the next three years. The MTP marks a crucial juncture for both the country’s economic recovery efforts and the political future of both President Tayyip Erdoğan and Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) government. While numerous questions arise, the
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s visit to Türkiye is significant in terms of Türkiye re-establishing relations with Arab administrations, with which it had almost severed ties during the Arab Spring. It is also the latest example of sharp turns in ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) foreign policy. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who hosted
Karl Marx had a poignant and apt observation: “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” The incident on September 2 in Konak Square, Izmir, where a plainclothes American soldier was attacked once again brought this saying to mind. The footage that gained quite a traction on social media showed an attacker throwing a