Turkish lira hits new low after Erdogan’s latest rate cut
The Turkish lira plunged as much as 5.6% to a record low against the dollar on Thursday after the central bank slashed its policy rate in line with an unorthodox economic programme set out...
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Can Erdogan’s Turkey Really Help the Uighurs in Xinjiang?
In March, the Erdogan-led Turkey, for the first time since 2016, claimed to have openly voiced out its concerns on the treatment of Uighurs in Xinjiang to China. The March meeting between Chinese Foreign...
Turkey asks U.S. to buy 40 F-16 jets to upgrade Air Force -sources
Turkey has made a request to the U.S. to buy 40 Lockheed Martin-made F-16 fighter jets and nearly 80 modernization kits for its existing warplanes, as the NATO ally looks to modernize its Air...
Disasters Expose Erdoğan’s Paper Tiger Sultanate
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Wildfires and floods in August revealed how weak Turkey is in the face of natural disasters, and how skewed are the priorities of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Once again, Turks failed to unite...
Turkey’s path to independence
The events in the Middle East have made a large number of interstate relations of the former “allies” very complicated due to the large-scale operation “Arab Spring”. After the failure of the original idea...
France and Pakistan – Stained Ties
In France, tensions over Islam have gathered some attention in recent times. Almost 4,000 military troops were deployed in Nice, a city in France, to boost security at schools, churches, and other public places;...
Erdogan’s new dove: Five questions for Turkey’s central bank
Turkey’s fourth central bank chief in less than two years will oversee his first policy decision on Thursday, after President Tayyip Erdogan rocked financial markets by firing a well-respected governor who had hiked rates...
Turkey will not cut off trade ties to Iran at behest of others, minister says
Ankara – Turkey will not cut off trade ties with Iran at the behest of other countries, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday, after the United States this week told countries to...
