President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has dismissed Central Bank Gov. Naci Ağbal, only four months after appointing him as part of a new economy administration that replaced the team of former Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak, the president’s son-in-law. Şahap Kavcıoğlu, a former ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) lawmaker and former deputy chair of
Both the United States and the European Union have reacted to the revoking of the lawmaker status of a Democratic Peoples’ Party (HDP) deputy and attempts to shut down the party. “We are monitoring the initiation of efforts to dissolve the Peoples’ Democratic Party, a decision that would unduly subvert the will of Turkish voters,
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
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
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
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced the government’s Human Rights Action Plan, which was prepared within the scope of a promised judicial reform package. The plan, which includes nine objectives, 50 targets and 393 activities, focuses heavily on legislative regulations, pledges improvements in a broad range of fields from freedom of expression to arrest procedures.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on February 25 that Turkey considers the Armenian military push to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan as a “coup attempt” and condemns it. “We are against coups or coup attempts wherever in the world,” Çavuşoğlu said during a press conference with his Hungarian counterpart Peter Szijjarto in Budapest. Earlier in
All 30 Boğaziçi University students, who were detained at a protest against Rector Melih Bulu inside the campus and referred to the court with arrest demand, were released in the early hours of Feb. 4. The students have been protesting the rector appointed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan since the start of the year on