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On August 3, Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) announced a consumer price index increase of 9.5 percent...
Akbelen case: dilemma of environment, energy and obligations
1 August 2023 The locals of a small village in Turkey's Western province of Muğla, İkizköy have been in...
Erdoğan’s bitter rain of hikes, search for debt and the IMF scenario
17 July 2023 After signing a series of tax hikes over the weekend, President Tayyip Erdoğan is traveling to...
Turkish people hit by a storm of tax and fee hikes
7 July 2023 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has signed a series of presidential decrees that raise the value-added...
Turkish disinflation tested by currency pressure: 38 percent
5 July 2023 The Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) on July 5 announced a further deceleration in the skyrocketing inflation...
CBRT ups policy rate to 15 percent but no “rational ground” yet
27 June 2023 After 27 months of stagnant rates, the Monetary Policy Committee of the Turkish Central Bank (CBRT)...
Turkish Central Bank raises interest rate to 15
22 June 2023 The Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) raised the policy rate to 15 percent...
Erdoğan: interest rates may go up but my policy remains same
15 June 2023 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that the appointment of Mehmet Şimşek as Treasury Minister should...
Can Gaye Erkan keep up with her position as CBRT governor?
12 June 2023 With her exceptional education, extensive experience, and youthful dynamism, Hafize Gaye Erkan sparked enthusiasm at home...
Why does Turkish Lira keep crashing?
10 June 2023 With the noticeable move to loosen government controls on foreign currency, combined with some uncertainty, the...
Presidential run-off: The last exit for the Turkish Economy
24 May 2023 Before the second round of presidential elections on May 28, President Tayyip Erdoğan told CNN International...
Turkish economy is decelerating heading into elections
26 April 2023 In the pre-election period, it is customary for the ruling parties to turn on the populist...
A “new mechanism” for Kurdish oil that also burned Ankara’s hands
30 March 2023 The final verdict by the International Court of Arbitration in Paris against Türkiye has further complicated...
Iraqi oil case against Türkiye, pipelines and Kurdish question
29 March 2023 First, let us try to explain why Türkiye lost an arbitration case brought by the Iraqi...
Economic effects of the earthquake: Devastation, reconstruction, and additional tax
22 February 2023 The earthquake caused great suffering. Massive loss of life, numerous injuries, destroyed homes, broken families…...
Turkish opposition’s economic policy proposal: Realistic
3 February 2023 Türkiye's opposition alliance that is called Nation Alliance (The Table of Six) announced the Common Policies’...
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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...