15 October 2024 
In a bid to curb surging inflation and restore fiscal discipline, Türkish Finance Ministry unveiled an...
Behind Turkish LNG deal with Exxon: Washington, Ankara, and Doha ties
1 May 2024 Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar told the Financial Times on April 28 that negotiations were continuing...
Two challenges of Şimşek: tax reform and public sector savings
28 April 2024 The local elections are over. Not as the Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan intended, but as opposition...
WB on Turkish inflation: patience is hard but the alternative is worse
18 April 2024 The World Bank has been on the agenda in Türkiye for two reasons nowadays. First, because...
Turkish Central Bank raised rates to 50 percent: what is happening?
21 March 2024 The Turkish Central Bank’s (CBRT) Monetary Policy Committee (PPK) increased the policy rate by 500 base...
The game is changing in nuclear energy: What to do next?
2 March 2024 Following the partial construction of the 4GW reactor at the Mersin Akkuyu nuclear power plant, news...
CBRT’s inflation forecasts remains the same in 2024’s first report
8 February 2024 The Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) Governor Fatih Karahan, facing the cameras for...
Turkish Central Bank Governor Erkan “removed from office”
2 February 2024 The Central Bank of Turkish Republic (CBRT) Governor Hafize Gaye Erkan "has been removed from office"...
Bayraktar tops taxpayer list, but why others choose anonymity?
4 January 2024 The Ministry of Treasury and Finance published Türkiye's top taxpayers list after 3 years on January...
The devil lies in the details: The actual policy rate in Türkiye is not 42.5
27 December 2023 This article is one of the most challenging ones that I have written for a newspaper...
Establishing a balanced “Give-and-Take” in energy diplomacy of Türkiye
23 November 2023 Türkiye is surrounded by energy-rich countries and stands as one of the region's largest energy investors,...
Turkish Central Bank increases policy rate to 35 percent
26 October 2023 The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of the Republic of Türkiye (CBRT) raised policy...
Crisis in the Middle East works against the Turkish economy
23 October 2023 The chaos in the Middle East prevails as the İsrael-Palestinian conflict has merged into a war...
Erdoğan’s political messages within Türkiye’s new economic programme
7 September 2023 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has presented the awaited Medium Term Economic Programme (MTP) on September...
The CBRT’s policy rate increase is positive; will there be more?
30 August 2023 The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Turkey (CBRT) raised the policy rate from...
Will Türkiye print larger banknotes again amid inflation?
24 August 2023 Türkiye may print 500 and 1000 Turkish Lira banknotes amid increasing inflation and currency crisis. This...
- 16/08/2019in Politics
Turkish Defence Minister at Syria border to urge U.S. for prompt joint action
Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar has paid an unscheduled visit to the built-up Turkish troops in Şanlıurfa at Syria border on August 16 with Chief of Joint Staff General Yaşar Güler and force commanders. The obvious aim of the visit is to supervise the process of establishing a Joint Operation Centre with the U.S. forces... - 18/07/2019in Politics
Turkey asks U.S. to revoke its F-35 removal decision to avoid “irreparable damage” in ties.
A Pentagon announcement was made on July 17 about removing Turkey from the F-35 fighter jet program because of Turkey’s purchase of Russian S-400 missiles. The Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a strong statement in response, in the later hours, asking the U.S. to revoke the decision “which will ... - 23/07/2019in Politics
More U.S. sanctions might further push Turkey toward Russia
The Turkish service of the Russian Sputnik channel ended the political show of three Turkish journalists on July 19, a day after they interviewed Ahmet Davutoğlu, the former prime minister of President Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) but now one of the in-house dissidents in preparations of a new party. Ironically, when asked... - 03/03/2019in Politics
Russian missiles separate NATO allies U.S. and Turkey
What would President Trump ask from Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan if he were allowed to ask for one thing only? An American official talking to a group of Turks on condition of anonymity recently asked that rhetorical question and continued without waiting for the Turks to answer: it would be to cancel the Russian S-400... - 05/01/2019in Politics
Reunion of Orthodox churches in Istanbul despite Putin, greets Erdoğan
A dinner given by Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko tonight on Jan 5 in honor of Patriarch Bartholomew in Istanbul may have repercussions in regional politics. Another guest of honor of the dinner at Conrad Hotel in Istanbul is Metropolit Ephifanios of Kiev whose independence (autocephaly) from the Moscow church was approved earlier in the day...