Journalist-Writer
May 9 was Europe Day. And the European Union (EU) celebrated it in what must be the most scattered, shaken circumstances since its foundation. With the formalization of Brexit, the Union had begun 2020 with heavy blows both politically and economically. The EU had frozen all political dialogue with Turkey due to the military operations
Although not all have been announced to the public yet, the normalization schedule for June on (and late May) the coronavirus measures are more or less clear. That is, of course, if no extraordinary developments follow.Health Minister Fahrettin Koca had said that before May 28 that the coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic would still be at high
In statements they issued on May 9 and 10, representatives of non-Muslim communities in Turkey expressed their worries about potential racist attacks, asking the Turkish government to take the necessary measures to protect them. The common denominator between the statements that the Turkish Jewish Community, the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate and the Armenian Patriarchate was a
When I started compiling information to write this article, 1 US dollar was 7.24 Turkish lira level. As I was writing these lines, the dollar had increased to the level of 7.25 liras. When Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak was brought to office by President Tayyip Erdogan, who is also his father-in-law, on June
President Tayyip Erdogan gets angry and fuming whenever someone criticizes his unique “Presidential Government System”, of being a one-man rule.But let’s take a look at a news pieces from May 6.Here is one of them: Protective mask selling prices will be submitted to Erdoğan for approval. Until a few days ago, Erdoğan had been stressing
From the cabinet meeting on May 4, President Tayyip Erdoğan made statements that could be considered as a turning point in the fight against the Covid-19 outbreak. Firstly, he said that the “Normalization Plan” will be spread out to the months of May, June, and July; not all at once. He expressed that if the
Prominent U.S. think tank, the Atlantic Council, held a remarkable video conference on April 30, looking into Turkey’s relations with the U.S. as well as its economic trajectory. The meeting was striking because of two main reasons. The Turkish government wanted to be among the countries benefiting from the convenient SWAP option to ease the
Does anybody remember the crises that the Turkish government had pushed to the forefront before the COVID-19 crisis blew up? We were kept on the edge of our seats by these issues presented by the government as matters of perpetuity, of life and death for the last independent Turkish state.Let me assist you to recall
Why does Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan has been targeting local administrations of the big cities so harshly? I can guess that you can count some reasons from not being able to control municipal revenues any longer to transfer those revenues to the potential vote base of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in form of
Devlet Bahçeli, leader of Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) always gets what he wants. No, I’m not only saying this because of the release of Alaattin Çakıcı, an organized crime leader from jail in the framework of the partial coronavirus amnesty. Nor am I saying this because of the role Bahçeli played in rejecting Interior