Journalist-Writer
Turkey’s economy was on the verge of a critical turn even before President Tayyip Erdoğan treated Turkey’s Industry and Business Association’s (TÜSİAD) public announcement against the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) policies as a declaration of war. After TÜSİAD defined the recent monetary move to cut policy rates as “wrong” and urged the government
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ignores that what happened on December 17 was a financial crisis. Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu names it as “Turkey being dragged into a disaster,” and openly questioned the health of Erdoğan’s “mental faculties.” Opposition İYİ (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener said that the crisis is now
When President Tayyip Erdoğan announced the following year’s minimum wage as 4,253 Turkish Liras per month on December 16, he said, “do not compare it to its dollar value.” I think he knew what people would ask if they calculate the wage on US dollars because when the amount of the minimum wage is calculated
President Tayyip Erdoğan made the long-awaited statement on December 16 and declared the minimum wage as 4253 liras. This statement came after the Central Bank cut the policy rate from 15 percent to 14 percent. In the morning hours, the dollar already exceeded the 15 lira bar and thus settled at the level of 15.5
Germany and France have been awarding human rights defenders worldwide with its Franco-German Human Rights and Rule of Law Award since 2016. This year, French and German diplomats in Turkey deemed Nebahat Akkoç, the founding president of Diyarbakır-based women’s rights foundation KAMER, worthy of the award. Akkoç received her award in a ceremony held at
Professor of Law Dr. İzzet Özgenç, who advises President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on economic issues, stirred a debate with his social media post yesterday as he said we should be prepared for the declaration of the State of Emergency because of the current state of the Turkish economy. With this message, the efforts of the
“Turkey’s economy suffers because of the foreign attacks.” That was the prominent discourse of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) for years. They instrumentalized this discourse to give an account for problems in domestic politics, stating that the attack of the West caused the issues. However, that discourse no
Of course, not all Kurdish voters are living in East and South-East Turkey. That is a well-known fact that Istanbul hosts the densest Kurdish population globally. It was the Kurdish voters that determined June 23 2019, local elections where Republican People’s Party (CHP) candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu has taken the Istanbul Metropolitan Mayor seat after 25
Daily Hürriyet newspaper’s senior politics op-ed writer Abdulkadir Selvi broke backstage news yesterday. He said that the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu met his party’s Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu. The breaking news was that the leader of the main opposition met his party’s mayor, pointing to a question whether there will be
“Dressing the wound” is a term which Necmettin Erbakan, the founder of the National Outlook Movement that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and President Tayyip Erdoğan have emerged from, used in the 1970s. He used the term to describe superficial economic or political measures which aim to save the day rather than ensure