Evaluating domestic and foreign affairs of countries separately does not lead to healthy conclusions. Without fully understanding the internal political phases of a country such as Turkey, it is not possible to make a rightful judgement on how these phases shape the country’s foreign policy and its consequent impact on international strategic changes. The analysis
On August 3, Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) announced a consumer price index increase of 9.5 percent for July, which is a one-month increase. Unfortunately, the annual consumer inflation is 47.8 percent. Moreover, regarding what has been happening in Türkiye since 2021, there is nothing strange about the 9.5 percent monthly uprise in the consumer price
In his speech at the 14th Ambassadors Conference on August 7, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan announced Ankara’s vision for the 100th anniversary of the Republic as “making Türkiye one of the playmaker actors”. I wish he had emphasized more the importance of the Republic of Türkiye entering its second century against all obstacles, but a
Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MİT) made one of its more frequent announcements on August 4. Bayram Yılmaz, aka Agit Gever, the PKK’s “Courier General”, who oversaw communication between the PKK units in Iraq, Syria, and Türkiye, was killed in his vehicle near Sinjar in northwest Iraq by a Turkish Air Force armed UAV. When MİT
Türkiye’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) seem to be on edge, evinced by their prominent member’s behaviour when they visited the western province of Muğla, Akbelen, to support the protesters who have been in clash with security forces to prevent their forest to be cleared for a coal field. The CHP Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, along
Since the July 11 – 12, 2023 NATO Summit in Vilnius, Turkey – European Union relations have started to be discussed again. However, it is important to see if there is any substance to this debate. Relations have gone backwards, especially since the July 15, 2016 coup attempt, the seventh anniversary of which we just
After signing a series of tax hikes over the weekend, President Tayyip Erdoğan is traveling to the United Arab Emirates this week in search of investment and debt. On July 17-18, he will attend the G20 meetings in Gandhinagar, India, where he will be joined by Treasury and Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek and Central Bank
President Tayyip Erdoğan left Türkiye on July 10 to attend NATO Summit in Lithuania saying, “First pave the way for Türkiye in the European Union, and then we will pave the way for Sweden.” After a two-hour flight, he landed in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, where the summit will be held on July 11-12.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has signed a series of presidential decrees that raise the value-added tax (VAT) rate from 18 percent to 20 percent and increase public fees by 50 percent. The decrees, which took effect immediately on July 7 also raise the revenues from betting to 10-15 percent and the Banking and Insurance