President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that Turkey is providing documents to the UN’s top court for a case brought by South Africa against Israel over allegations of genocide against Palestinian civilians. Speaking to reporters in Istanbul, Erdogan said Turkey would continue to provide documentation, mostly visuals, on Israel’s attacks on Gaza. “I believe Israel […]
Hasnain Malik, Telemer, Dubai: “It is a major disappointment for investors hoping for a victory for opposition candidate (Kemal) Kılıçdaroğlu and his promise to reverse conservative economic policy; a hope reinforced by the return of rival centrist candidate Ines on 11 May. “For the Bulls on Turkish Assets, expectations have quickly shifted from a possible […]
Turkey led the presidential runoff after President Tayyip Erdogan outperformed projections in Sunday’s election as he sought to extend his two-decade rule, holding a huge lead over his rival, but fell short of an absolute majority. Neither Erdogan nor rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu cleared the 50 percent threshold needed to avoid a second round scheduled for […]
Turks will vote on Sunday in one of the most consequential elections in modern Turkey’s 100-year history, which could oust President Tayyip Erdogan after 20 years in power and halt his government’s increasingly authoritarian path. The vote will not only lead Turkey, a NATO-member country of 85 million, but also decide how it is governed, […]
The issue of aid to Syria is a delicate one, and the approved government in Damascus made an official request for help from the European Union, said Janez Lenarcic, the bloc’s commissioner for crisis management. A decade of civil war and Syrian-Russian aerial bombardment had already destroyed hospitals, collapsed the economy and fueled power, fuel […]
“We have decided to declare a state of emergency to ensure that our (rescue and recovery) work can be carried out quickly,” Erdogan said in televised remarks. “We will quickly complete the presidential and parliamentary procedures related to this decision, which will cover our 10 provinces where the earthquake has been experienced and will last […]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said for the first time on Sunday that Ankara could accept Finland into NATO without its Nordic neighbor Sweden. Erdogan’s comments came during a televised meeting with young voters, days after Ankara suspended NATO accession talks with both countries. Turkey and Hungary remain the only members of the 30-nation Western […]
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that Turkey will hold elections on May 14, a month ahead of schedule, according to a video shared by his office on Sunday. “This is not an early election, but bringing it forward,” Erdogan said in a video of his meeting with young people in Bursa this weekend that was […]
The Republic of Turkey was established 100 years ago. Since then, the country has experienced a transition from a one-party to a multi-party system, a military coup in the 1960s, nearly a decade of violence on its streets in the 70s, followed by another coup, and several unstable coalition governments in the 90s. , and […]
