Erdoğan warns Finland and Sweden to meet Ankara’s demands, US President Biden supports F-16 sale to Türkiye, Ankara court bans access to broadcasters DW and VoA, minimum wage raised a way below inflation… Here is what you need to know what is happening in “Türkiye Today“: 1- Türkiye’s President Tayyip Erdoğan said Ankara could still
This article was written on the morning of June 30, more than 12 hours after President Tayyip Erdoğan and US President Joe Biden met at the NATO Summit in Madrid. The first statement was issued by the USA half an hour after the meeting, but there hadn’t been any statement from the Turkish side until
Biden Administration’s green light to F-16 sale to Turkey, Ankara to push for the extradition of 33 terror suspects “within the framework of the memorandum signed”, top court’s rule that imprisoned former HDP co-leader Demirtaş’s rights were violated, contentious draft media law’s parliamentary session postponed, retailers to be fined… Here is what you need to
The barrier that Türkiye placed on the NATO membership of Sweden and Finland was lifted with a four-way meeting held in Madrid on 28 June. After a two-hour meeting facilitated by NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, it was announced that President Tayyip Erdoğan, signalled that Ankara’s veto would continue “unless concrete steps were taken” before leaving
Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin was a Russian general who was one of the architects of Russia’s 18th century expansionism. He was also a statesman and one of the lovers of Czarina Katerina II. He was devoted to establishing a new Byzantine Empire under the rule of Russia with Czarina Katerina II by dismantling the Ottoman Empire;
A day before the Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan departed for the Madrid NATO Summit on 28-29 June, Baykar, the manufacturer of Bayraktar TB2 armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), released an interesting statement. According to the release published in Turkish, English, and Ukrainian, 3 TB2 drone were donated to Ukraine, not for money raised by the
Erdoğan to meet his Swedish and Finnish counterparts before NATO Madrid summit, Police attack on Istanbul Pride, Turkey’s banking regulator’s contraversial loan restriction, Iran FM to visit Turkey after Israeli FM, Cyanide spill to Euphrates river, Erdoğan opening discussions on reinstating death penalty… Here is what you need to know what is going on in
Russia clearly sees the duel of words between Turkey and Greece as a “fishermen’s fight” where none of the parties hit hard to their opponent to prevent the boat from capsizing. In Syria, calculations are changed, the PKK scenario in NATO is different from what we are told. Before elaborating on them, we must first
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan summoned his top economy policy officials in a closed-door meeting at the presidency on May 31 amid announcements of new price hikes while high inflation keeps straining households. Erdoğan held an emergency meeting at the Presidency attended by Treasury and Finance Minister Nureddin Nebati, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey