Tag: Turkey News

The Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, says he favours the retrial of hundreds of military officers convicted of plotting to overthrow the government. It comes after his senior adviser ...

“The row over the graft probe gave a golden opportunity to correct a grave injustice in the Turkish system,” says Metin Feyzioğlu, the chairman of Union of Turkish Bars (TBB). ...

"Exchange rate fluctuations in recent days are irrelevant to the real economy as such changes do not cause any deterioration in Turkey’s foreign trade balance" 2013 was a tough year ...

A major reshuffle of Turkey’s most important diplomatic posts has taken effect with two former ambassadors to Japan, Serdar Kılıç and Abdurrahman Bilgiç, being posted as Turkey’s envoys to the ...

Deputy PM Babacan also said Turkey would be 48% bigger in 2018 comparing to 2007's figures according to IMF's predictions while USA would grow by 23%, Japan by 9% and ...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with Fenerbahçeboard member Mahmut Uslu and club icon Rıdvan Dilmen in Istanbul on Jan. 1.  The two-hour meeting at the Prime Minister’s office at Dolmabahçe came ...

The majority of Israelis and Palestinians support the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel but remain suspicious of the other side, according to a poll released on Jan. 1. The survey ...

Gulen movement set up secret police cells in separate offices, in parallel to the real ones, according to investigations started after the recent appointments within the Turkish National Police Department. ...

Over the weekend, there was some scary news for the world's biggest social network. Facebook, the story went, was "dead and buried", teenagers were turning away "in their droves", put ...

The family of German motor-racing champion Michael Schumacher is at his bedside as he fights for life following a skiing accident in the French Alps. Schumacher's manager, Sabine Kehm, said ...