Turkey
Six spectacular places to visit in Turkey before the winter season ends
Art and Culture
February 19, 2019
Six spectacular places to visit in Turkey before the winter season ends
Turkish tourism has been slowly recovering from the terror attacks of 2015 and 2017, and the deadly aborted coup in…
Turkey and Moldova sign visa-free travel agreement
World
February 19, 2019
Turkey and Moldova sign visa-free travel agreement
According to an agreement that was signed during President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Moldova on October 17, 2018, Turkish…
Student harassed by police says shame should be on police officer
Turkey
February 18, 2019
Student harassed by police says shame should be on police officer
Merve Demirel, a university student in Ankara whose apparent harassment by a police officer during a protest on Saturday was…
Housing sales in Turkey dropped by 24.8 percent in January: TurkStat
Business
February 18, 2019
Housing sales in Turkey dropped by 24.8 percent in January: TurkStat
The Turkish Statistics Institute (TurkStat) has revealed that housing sales on a national scale declined by 24.8 percent in January…
Business representative: Turkish firms can’t get their money from government projects
Business
February 18, 2019
Business representative: Turkish firms can’t get their money from government projects
A business association chairman said on Monday that Turkish firms had not been paid by the government for project contracts…
Erdoğan shrugs off US warning against purchase of Russian S-400 defense system
World
February 18, 2019
Erdoğan shrugs off US warning against purchase of Russian S-400 defense system
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan shrugged off US warnings against Ankara’s purchase of a Russian S-400 air defense system, Sputnik…
Ministry stops hotel construction in cultural heritage site Cappadocia
Art and Culture
February 17, 2019
Ministry stops hotel construction in cultural heritage site Cappadocia
Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism on Wednesday announced that hotel construction in the middle of Cappadocia, a culturally significant…
Erdoğan says EU not taking Turkey into the bloc because it is Muslim
Turkey
February 17, 2019
Erdoğan says EU not taking Turkey into the bloc because it is Muslim
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said the European Union is not accepting Turkey into the bloc because Turkey is…
Supreme Court of the Netherlands: Asylum applicants of Gülen Movement must be accepted
World
February 15, 2019
Supreme Court of the Netherlands: Asylum applicants of Gülen Movement must be accepted
The Dutch Supreme Court (Raad van State Hoger beroep), which had filed an appeal with the Immigration and Foreigners Institution…
European Parliament resolution underscores lack of domestic legal remedies in Turkey
World
February 15, 2019
European Parliament resolution underscores lack of domestic legal remedies in Turkey
Forty-seven Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and 14 press freedom and free expression organizations led by the International Press…