The Turkish lira fell to 7.26 against the dollar on Thursday, surpassing the previous record low of 7.24 reached during a currency crisis in August 2018.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici) Regulatory agency bans 3 major international banks from ...
Zekiye Ataç and her son Ahmet Burhan. Ahmet Burhan Ataç, an 8-year-old cancer patient, succumbed to his illness on Thursday after a travel ban on his mother prevented him from receiving treatment in Germany for ...
İbrahim Gökçek after being released from prison Another member of a popular, left-wing folk music group that is banned in Turkey has died after he ended a hunger strike in protest of the government’s crackdown ...
Now, with the coronavirus pandemic and the economic crisis, Turkey has itself become a hostage. Two years ago Nate Schenkkan, a project director at Freedom House, claimed that hostage-taking had become Turkey’s new foreign policy. He ...
An economic crisis was looming even before the coronavirus gripped Turkey with unexpected ferocity. But the contagion has quickly and ruthlessly laid bare the ways President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has left the economy vulnerable, presenting him ...
(Bloomberg Opinion) — It may be the closest thing to a foreign-policy success that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has had in years: Turkey’s intervention in Libya’s civil war has seemingly turned the tide in favor ...
There is no longer any doubt that Recep Tayyip Erdogan is an autocrat and an Islamist. He seeks to monopolize power, accumulate wealth for his immediate family, and change the principles upon which Turkish society ...
Istanbul, April 30, 2020 – Turkish authorities should drop the charges against journalist Fatih Portakal and allow him to work freely, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the state ...
Freed American pastor Andrew Brunson (L) prays for US President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, DC, October 13, 2018. – Brunson, held for two years in Turkey, returned to the US earlier ...
Turkey is well into its second month since the first coronavirus case was diagnosed on March 10. As of May 5, the number of reported cases has reached almost 130,000, which puts Turkey among the top eight ...