ANKARA – Turkey’s economy grew 3.9 percent year on year in the third quarter, expanding at the slowest rate since the second quarter of 2020, the Turkish Statistical Institute data announced on Wednesday. The limited [Read More]
ANKARA – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday that Ankara and Cairo could mutually appoint ambassadors in the upcoming months as part of efforts to normalize bilateral ties. “We can exchange ambassadors in [Read More]
ANKARA – Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar on Friday refuted allegations that a Turkish airstrike, launched as part of the country’s offensive against the mainly-Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia, hit a position of U.S. [Read More]
ISTANBUL – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif jointly inaugurated a corvette warship, which was built by Turkey for Pakistan Navy. In his speech at the launch ceremony in [Read More]
ANKARA – Turkey’s rampant inflation is expected to cool down in December but the country’s worst-ever cost-of-living crisis in decades would stay on, experts said. “We have seen the possible peak in inflation in October, [Read More]
ANKARA – The Turkish central bank ended the easing cycle in benchmark rate with the last cut by 150 basis points to 9 percent on Thursday. The central bank’s Monetary Policy Committee said in a [Read More]
ANKARA – Turkish authorities have seized the assets of FTX’s former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried amid a probe into the major cryptocurrency exchange, the Turkish Financial Crimes Investigation Board (MASAK) said on Wednesday. Assets of FTX [Read More]
ANKARA – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that his country wants to enhance cooperation with Cuba, and the two countries signed six agreements in the fields of media and communication, culture, and [Read More]
ANKARA – Turkey will launch a ground operation into northern Syria “at the most convenient time” to build a security strip, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday. “Our determination to secure all our southern [Read More]
ANKARA – At least 22 people were injured, including one seriously, in a magnitude-5.9 earthquake hitting Turkey’s northwestern province of Duzce early Wednesday, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said. The earthquake happened at 4:08 a.m. local [Read More]
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