Meral Akşener, the chair of Turkey’s İYİ (Good) Party, refuted today claims over attempts to replace the current Nation Alliance with the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP). Parliament spokesperson Mustafa Şentop is engaged in a duel with the CHP over repeating a vote in parliament.And in Turkey’s region, Russia-Ukraine tensions escalated once again. The
Turkey has announced new measures, including weekend shutdowns, in the face of rising Covid-19 cases, with 58 provinces, where 80 percent of the population reside, are now under the category of very high risk. The Sunday curfews in “very high-risk” category provinces is expanded to Saturdays, President Recep Tayyin Erdoğan said, following a cabinet meeting
An official statement after the European Union leaders’ summit on March 25 used an optimistic but conditional language over Turkey, with the Turkish foreign ministry responding to it in a similarly welcoming and still cautious manner. However, the EU statement is also interpreted as a text that actually confirms the continuation of the distance between
The Turkish economy management is looking for ways to end big losses of the lira against the USD as the Istanbul stock exchange management halted operations for two times. The losses came after Presidenü Recep Tayyip Erdoğan replaced Central Bank governor Naci Ağbal with Şahap Kavcıoğlu in theearly hours of March 20. With the opening
Women in many cities across Turkey took to the streets on March 20 to protest President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s decision to retreat from the Istanbul Convention that introduces liabilities to prevent violence against women. In Istanbul, a large group gathered in the district of Kadıköy upon the call of the We Will Stop Femicide Platform
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has decided to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention, a key safeguard against violence against women.Rights groups and women organizations reacted to the decision published on the Official Gazette in the early hours of March 20 saying that it is a big backstep in protecting women against violence. On the rumors
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