The son of the Somali leader, Mohammed Hassan Shekh Mohamud, left the country after hitting and killing a motorcycle courier, Yunus Emre Göçer, in traffic in Istanbul. The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued an arrest warrant for Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s son, Mohammed Hassan Shekh Mohamud, after motorcycle courier Yunus Emre Göçer,
Türkiye-Israel relations are increasingly strained on December 2 after Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a statement as a response to Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen’s social media post directly addressing President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan who reiterated his previous statement that he does not regard Hamas as a terrorist organisation. Spokesperson of Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Turkish Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee decided to postpone the deliberations on Sweden’s Accession Protocol to NATO, stating that they needed more information from Sweden about its commitments at the first meeting after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan signed the protocol for the parliamentary approval. The Foreign Affairs Committee on November 16 voted to adjourn the meeting
Two Turkish planes carrying 27 patients and their companions who were taken out of Gaza landed to Ankara on late November 15, after departing from Egypt’s El Arish Airport. Turkish Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca said that following “intense diplomatic negotiations that has taken place in Egypt for health aids for Gaza,” 27 patients and
The Third Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Türkiye rejected complying with the Constitutional Court’s decision to release imprisoned lawmaker Can Atalay, filing a criminal complaint against the members of the top court, quoting that they “exceeded their authority.” In an unprecedented decision on November 9, the Supreme Court ruled to defy Constitutional Court’s
Ahead of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Türkiye on November 5-6, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made an important statement on the Gaza crisis and relations with Israel. He said that severing relations with Israel over the Gaza crisis was not on the agenda, but that he would no longer deal with Prime
T24 columnist and journalist Tolga Şardan was arrested after being detained from his home in Ankara on November 1 as part of an investigation launched over his article on corruption allegations in the judiciary. The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office launched an investigation against Şardan for his article titled “What’s in the report submitted by
The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of the Republic of Türkiye (CBRT) raised policy interest rate by 500 basis points to 35 percent. The Monetary Policy Committee, which convened under the leadership of CBRT Governor Hafize Erkan on October 26, decided to raise the policy rate, the one-week repo auction interest rate, from
Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan said on October 25 that he regards the Palestinian Hamas organization “not as a terrorist organization, but as a liberation group”. Devoting almost the entire parliamentary group speach to Gaza, Erdoğan said: “You cannot find any other country that bombs cities day and night with its warplanes, that sets buildings and
The Constitutional Court (AYM) ruled that the rights of Can Atalay, who was elected as Turkish Labor Party (TİP) Hatay lawmaker in May elections, were violated since he was not released from the prison he has been kept with the approval of his prison sentence in Gezi Park Protests case. Ruling on Atalay’s individual application