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Turkish jets carried out airstrikes inside Iraqi Kurdistan late Sunday, the same day an explosion wounded two police officers near the parliament building in Ankara. In the hours after the bombing, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had already vowed that “terrorists” would never achieve their goal. The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), listed as a terrorist […]
The second phase of the campaign is underway amid turmoil in the Turkish market, which has seen the lira close to historic lows against the dollar. Investors are starting to value Erdogan’s victory and the long-term continuation of his unorthodox economic policies. The cost of insuring Turkey’s debt risk is rising amid fears that the […]
For his part, Erdogan’s challenger Kilicdaroglu sought to put a positive spin on the result. In a series of tweets addressed to Erdogan, referring to less than 50 percent, Kilikdaroglu said, “The message of change has come from the ballot box. Those who want change in this country are now more than those who don’t […]
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday launched a new attack against Turkey’s LGBTQ community in a bid to rally his conservative voters in the May 14 elections. Turkey’s longest-serving leader has campaigned tirelessly since withdrawing over a health scare that sidelined him for three days last week. Polls show the 69-year-old running alongside left-wing secular […]
“It is now a race against time,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organisation, said in Geneva. “Every minute, every hour that passes, the chances of finding survivors get smaller.” Throughout the region, rescue workers searched for survivors through the night and into the morning, as people waited in agony through the piles […]
waiting game All 30 NATO member states must approve the new ones. To allay Turkey’s concerns, Sweden and Finland last summer reportedly linked PKK separatist militants in Turkey’s southeast – a hard line against what Ankara labels as predominantly Kurdish “terrorists”. Resolved to take Washington, Stockholm and Helsinki hoped Ankara would ratify Turkey’s NATO bids […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held talks with US President Joe Biden and the leaders of Turkey and France on Sunday, an escalation of diplomatic activity around the Russia-initiated war that is dragging into a 10th month. “We continue to work with partners,” Zelensky said in his nightly video address. While Zelensky has held several talks […]
