Turkey Is Among The Countries Dealing With A Spike In COVID-19 Cases : NPR

Turkey Is Among The Countries Dealing With A Spike In COVID-19 Cases

Officially the country reports more than 268,000 cases and more than 6,300 deaths. But some doctors doubt the government's statistics, and say they're overwhelmed by the number of sick people.

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Escalation or mediation in the Eastern Med?: Turkey and Greece at loggerheads over maritime sovereignty - Qantara.de

Turkey and Greece at loggerheads over maritime sovereignty

Will German attempts at mediation avert the Eastern Mediterranean crisis? Greece has accused Turkey of conducting illegal explorations for shale gas close to the Greek islands. Yet Ankara maintains that the waters are part of the Turkish continental shelf. Ronald Meinardus reports from Istanbul

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Turkish lawyer dies on hunger strike demanding fair trial

Turkish lawyer dies on hunger strike demanding fair trial

Ankara, Aug 28 (AP) A human rights lawyer on hunger strike in a Turkish prison to demand a fair trial for herself and colleagues has died, an attorney''s group said.

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Why we should be concerned about President Erdogan turning museums into mosques | The Art Newspaper

Why we should be concerned about President Erdogan turning museums into mosques

Hagia Sophia and the Chora Church will remain “open to all”, Turkish government promises—but restricted access may not be the primary worry

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How much does Erdogan’s 'coercive diplomacy' benefit Turkey?

How much does Erdogan’s 'coercive diplomacy' benefit Turkey?

If mishandled, Turkey’s threats of military action could trigger an uncontrolled escalation, leaving Ankara facing difficult choices.

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Turkey, Greece stick to their guns in escalating Med dispute

Turkey, Greece stick to their guns in escalating Med dispute

ANKARA – Turkey and Greece both vowed Wednesday to defend their competing claims in the eastern Mediterranean as the neighbors and NATO allies remained locked in a tense dispute over offshore energy exploration rights.

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IS suspect detained in Istanbul has plans for "sensational" terror attack - Xinhua | English.news.cn

IS suspect detained in Istanbul has plans for "sensational" terror attack

ISTANBUL, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- The suspected member of the Islamic State (IS) detained by the Turkish police in Istanbul has plans to carry out a "sensational" terror attack, Demiroren news agency reported Tuesday.

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Is Turkey’s opposition losing Istanbul to Erdogan?

Is Turkey’s opposition losing Istanbul to Erdogan?

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is employing a panoply of unfathomable methods to peremptorily take over city municipalities he lost in the last election.

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Discussing the Future of Social Media-Driven Protests With Zeynep Tufekci | by Alex Kantrowitz | Aug, 2020 | OneZero

Discussing the Future of Social Media-Driven Protests With Zeynep Tufekci

‘Of course it’s performative, but you know what? It’s a better world if brands feel they have to be performative’

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6 dead, 10 missing as flooding hits Turkey's Black Sea coast - Las Vegas Sun Newspaper

6 dead, 10 missing as flooding hits Turkey’s Black Sea coast
Published Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020 | 11:18 a.m.

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Flooding caused by heavy rains has killed six people along Turkey's Black Sea coast and left 10 others missing, including some rescue workers, officials said Sunday.

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Turkey's Erdogan announces massive Black Sea gas discovery - The National

Turkey's Erdogan announces massive Black Sea gas discovery

Recep Tayyip Erdogan says natural gas reserve is 320 billion cubic metres

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UPDATE 2-Turkey holds rates in favour of back-door steps to support lira - Reuters

UPDATE 2-Turkey holds rates in favour of back-door steps to support lira
Ali Kucukgocmen, Jonathan Spicer

By Ali Kucukgocmen and Jonathan Spicer

ISTANBUL, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Turkey’s central bank held its benchmark interest rate steady as expected on Thursday despite the lira hitting record lows this week, and it paved the way to more back-door measures that have tightened credit and slowed the currency’s decline.

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İstanbul Mayor İmamoğlu slams removal of banners against canal project - english

İstanbul Mayor İmamoğlu slams removal of banners against canal project

İstanbul Mayor İmamoğlu has talked about the removal of their banners against the Canal İstanbul project by the Governor's Office: “If they will take action, my advice is this: Don’t bother with banners, my social media posts have been there for months.”

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In Turkey, doctors fear coronavirus numbers are higher than the government admits | The World from PRX

In Turkey, doctors fear coronavirus numbers are higher than the government admits

Turkey’s reopening follows a national lull in the coronavirus infections. But the country’s largest association of doctors says that based on its own research, the actual number of cases of the coronavirus in Turkey is much higher than reported figures.

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Turkey Finds Energy in Black Sea as Erdogan Vows a New Era - Bloomberg

Turkey Finds Energy in Black Sea as Erdogan Vows a New Era
By Cagan Koc, Selcan Hacaoglu, and Asli Kandemir
August 19, 2020, 5:36 PM GMT+3 Updated on August 19, 2020, 11:21 PM GMT+3

Turkey has discovered energy in the Black Sea, most likely natural gas, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said Wednesday, but gave no indication of the size and depth of the find, nor how difficult it will be to extract.

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Turkey Finds Energy in Black Sea as Erdogan Vows a New Era - Bloomberg

Turkey Finds Energy in Black Sea as Erdogan Vows a New Era
By Cagan Koc, Selcan Hacaoglu, and Asli Kandemir
August 19, 2020, 5:36 PM GMT+3 Updated on August 19, 2020, 11:21 PM GMT+3

Turkey has discovered energy in the Black Sea, most likely natural gas, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said Wednesday, but gave no indication of the size and depth of the find, nor how difficult it will be to extract.

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Turkey's lira recovers from all-time low; EM shares decline | Financial Post

Turkey's lira recovers from all-time low; EM shares decline
Author of the article:
Reuters
Susan Mathew
Publishing date:Aug 19, 2020  •  Last Updated 11 hours ago  •  2 minute read
Article content
Turkey’s lira firmed on Wednesday after the central bank signaled higher borrowing costs, while upbeat sentiment after the S&P 500 index hit a record high overnight proved brief as an index of emerging market stocks erased early gains.

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The Long Fight: Protecting Turkish Women from Gender-Based Violence | Balkan Insight

The Long Fight: Protecting Turkish Women from Gender-Based Violence
Gulsum Kav
Gulsum Kav is at the forefront of a movement to protect women from gender-based violence and murder in Turkey. It is a long and difficult fight.

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Turkey Considers Quitting Treaty On Violence Against Women : NPR

Turkey Considers Quitting Treaty On Violence Against Women

The Turkish government is considering pulling out of a treaty designed to prevent violence against women. But the proposal prompted opposition and protests.

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Turkish lira tanks amid policy mistakes | Business| Economy and finance news from a German perspective | DW | 17.08.2020

Turkish lira tanks amid policy mistakes

Turkey's currency hit a record low against the US dollar, as investors are worried about the risk of rising inflation and even a balance-of- payments crisis. Depleted foreign currency reserves add to the woes.

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Turkey's daily virus infection rate at highest in 45 days

Turkey's daily virus infection rate at highest in 45 days

ISTANBUL (AP) — The number of new COVID-19 infections in Turkey hit its highest level in 45 days on Saturday, the country's health minister said as he announced 1,256 new cases.

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Turkey’s Central Bank Is in a Bind Forward of Charges Day: Eco Week | Fintech Zoom - World Finance

Turkey’s Central Bank Is in a Bind Forward of Charges Day: Eco Week
by JUNG MIN-SEO August 16, 2020 in Banking

(Bloomberg) — Turkey’s central bank is in a bind and buyers are about to learn how coverage makers remedy the dilemma of appeasing a president preoccupied with low rates of interest and the necessity to elevate borrowing prices to manage the lira rout.

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Gold rush at Turkish bazaar a test of trust for lowly lira | The Mighty 790 KFGO | KFGO

Gold rush at Turkish bazaar a test of trust for lowly lira
/ The Mighty 790 KFGO | KFGO
Thomson Reuters
Aug 14, 2020 3:50 AM

By Ezgi Erkoyun and Jonathan Spicer

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Hasan Ayhan followed his wife's instructions last week and took their savings to buy gold at Istanbul's Grand Bazaar as Turks scooped up bullion worth $7 billion in a just a fortnight.

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Farming in Turkey’s Mountains

Farming in Turkey’s Mountains

June 8, 2020

Tourists know Turkey’s Antalya province for its beautiful Mediterranean resorts, but coastal tourism isn’t the only major contributor to the region’s economy. Further inland, farming takes over as the dominant source of revenue and serves as the backbone for rural Turkey.

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Economic policy reversal fraught with political risks for Erdogan

Economic policy reversal fraught with political risks for Erdogan

Ankara’s bid to warm the pandemic-hit economy has backfired, forcing a policy reversal that threatens to aggravate popular grievances and heighten political risks for Erdogan.

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Erdogan accuses Macron of 'colonialism' and 'spectacle' in Lebanon

Erdogan accuses Macron of ‘colonialism’ and ‘spectacle’ in Lebanon
Thursday, 13 August 2020

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron of “colonial” aims in Lebanon on Thursday and called his recent visit to Beirut a “spectacle”, amid growing tensions between Ankara and Paris.

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Turkish Police Arrest 25 Women Demanding Turkey Remain in Women’s Rights Treaty | Democracy Now!

Turkish Police Arrest 25 Women Demanding Turkey Remain in Women’s Rights Treaty
HEADLINEAUG 13, 2020

In Turkey, police arrested 25 women at a protest in the capital Ankara Wednesday as they called on the Turkish government to reverse plans to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention — a European treaty on gender-based violence

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Charlemagne - Fethullah Gulen shares blame for Turkey’s plight | Europe | The Economist

Fethullah Gulen shares blame for Turkey’s plight
The exiled imam did much to cripple democracy

You might think that by now Turkey had run out of handcuffs. But although the wave of arrests related to the bizarre coup attempt that rocked the country in the summer of 2016 has certainly slowed, it has not stopped. Every week seems to bring a new round-up of suspected members of the Gulen community, or cemaat, the Islamist movement that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blames for the coup. At least 41 people, many of them soldiers, were detained on July 27th. Warrants for over two dozen others were issued last week.

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Why the Turkish lira is in free fall | Business| Economy and finance news from a German perspective | DW | 11.08.2020

Why the Turkish lira is in free fall

The Turkish currency has hit record lows against the euro and US dollar, despite efforts by its central bank to stop the rot. The fall comes as the effects of the global pandemic and poor economic policy converge.

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Turkish Lira’s Fall Drives Concerns for Euro - WSJ

Turkish Lira’s Fall Drives Concerns for Euro

Further weakening in the currency could dampen Turkey’s appetite for European imports and strain businesses’ ability to repay loans to European banks

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Erdogan Has Hidden an Economic Disaster Deep in Turkish Banks

Erdogan Has Hidden an Economic Disaster Deep in Turkish Banks
And he won’t be able to keep the game going for much longer.
BY CHRIS MILLER | AUGUST 11, 2020, 1:48 PM

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is not usually known as an economic innovator. But for the past year, his government has been running a high-stakes economic experiment. The test: How long can Turkey hide the fact that it is spending far beyond its means? Normally when governments spend more than they tax, the difference appears as a budget deficit. They fund that deficit by issuing bonds, which are traded on international markets and so are easy to track. If the debt load grows too large, and if borrowing costs spike, then then country must default or seek a bailout. This type of debt crisis isn’t pleasant, as Argentina or Greece or Pakistan could attest, but it is at least straightforward and familiar.

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Turkey's collapsing lira: government is running out of options for embattled currency

Turkey's collapsing lira: government is running out of options for embattled currency

Gulcin Ozkan, Professor of Finance, King's College London
The Conversation11 August 2020
The Turkish lira hit its weakest ever level against the US dollar on August 7, trading at 7.36 at one point, having lost nearly 20% of its value since the beginning of the year. It comes almost two years to the day since Turkey was last hit by a massive currency crisis, following the economic sanctions imposed by the US government after Turkey detained American pastor Andrew Brunson on terrorism charges.

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Erdogan’s Turkey battles the ghosts of Sèvres, 100 years later - The Washington Post

A century-old treaty haunts the Mediterranean

By
Ishaan Tharoor
August 10, 2020 at 12:00 a.m. EDT

A hundred years ago, French, British and Italian officials convened in a famous porcelain factory southwest of Paris to carve up the Ottoman Empire. The Treaty of Sèvres, signed Aug. 10, 1920, concluded months of fitful negotiations among the victors of World War I and paved the way for the remaking of the modern Middle East. It imposed terms on the defeated Ottomans widely seen as even more punitive than the measures dictated to Germany by the Treaty of Versailles earlier that year, forcing the empire to rescind all its claims to lands in the Middle East and North Africa.

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Catastrophic fall of lira could be blessing in disguise for Turkish tourism

Catastrophic fall of lira could be blessing in disguise for Turkish tourism

Harry S. Johnson
August 7, 2020 18:12

Turkish lira keeps hitting record lows against the major currencies on exchange markets due to years of debt accumulation and the unwillingness of President Erdogan to increase interest rates.

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Erdogan's Neo-Ottoman Aspirations Inspire Islamists :: The Investigative Project on Terrorism

Erdogan's Neo-Ottoman Aspirations Inspire Islamists
by Hany Ghoraba
Special to IPT News
August 7, 2020

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's once hidden agenda of reviving a modern version of the Ottoman Empire is not so secret in light of recent moves. The world has watched Erdogan use draconian and oppressive methods to beat down domestic critics. The conversion of Hagia Sophia – formerly a Byzantine cathedral – into mosque last month was a symbolic step to inspire Islamists who are longing for a new caliphate. Erdogan's state-controlled media already are calling for the Muslim world's first superpower.

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Turkish women rally against domestic violence as ruling party contemplates leaving key rights convention - CNN

Turkish women rally against domestic violence as ruling party contemplates leaving key rights treaty
By Gul Tuysuz, CNN

Updated 6:57 PM ET, Wed August 5, 2020

Demonstrators wearing protective face masks hold up placards with names of women during a demonstration for a better implementation of the Istanbul Convention in Istanbul on Wednesday.
(CNN)Women poured into rallies across Turkey on Wednesday over fears of Ankara's potential withdrawal from a European treaty on gender-based violence.

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Erdogan’s Target in Hagia Sophia Stunt was Ataturk’s Legacy | Balkan Insight

Erdogan’s Target in Hagia Sophia Stunt was Ataturk’s Legacy

Aykan ErdemirBIRNAugust 4, 202012:14
The re-designation of this iconic building as a mosque was not just a sop to the Turkish President’s Islamist fans – but another blow at the memory of the statesman whose legacy haunts and frustrates him.

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Behind An Emboldened Erdogan: Is Turkey Preparing To Go Nuclear?

Behind An Emboldened Erdogan: Is Turkey Preparing To Go Nuclear? 
byJai Menon-Aug 4, 2020 04:28 AM

Based on a neo-Ottoman strategic vision of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, over the last decade, it has generated animosity in virtually all neighbouring countries, and some who are not neighbours too.

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bne IntelliNews - Turkish doctors dispute official coronavirus infections count

Turkish doctors dispute official coronavirus infections count

By bne IntelIiNews August 4, 2020
The Ankara Chamber of Doctors said on August 4 that almost 1,000 people are contracting the coronavirus (COVID-19) every day in the Turkish capital—if correct, the claim exposes Turkey’s official virus figures as severely inaccurate. The government-approved data state that the daily nationwide tally of new cases is running at around that level.

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Turkey’s lira slides as Central Bank raises inflation forecast

Turkey’s lira slides as Central Bank raises inflation forecast

Despite state bank efforts to bolster Turkey’s currency, the lira fell to its lowest point since May against the dollar this week, prompting fears of a renewed currency crisis.

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Turkish health officials watch for COVID-19 cases to rise after holiday

Turkish health officials watch for COVID-19 cases to rise after holiday

Turkish health officials are calling for increased precautions to limit the spread of COVID-19 as citizens conclude festivities for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.

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Erdogan’s Egregious Economic Experiment - The Bulwark

Erdogan’s Egregious Economic Experiment
The Turkish president is acting as if the laws of economics don’t apply to him.
by DESMOND LACHMAN AND JOHN KEARNS AUGUST 2, 2020 5:35 AM

Controlled macroeconomic policy experiments are rare. Yet that is what President Recep Erdogan seems to be offering in Turkey with his highly unconventional economic policies. He might help us better understand how macroeconomics works but it is likely to come at a high cost for the Turkish public.

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As Turkey Is Flooded With State-Sponsored Fake News, Confusion Abounds on America | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner.com

As Turkey Is Flooded With State-Sponsored Fake News, Confusion Abounds on America
by Burak Bekdil
OPINION

In 2018, the Turkish police began to raid onion wholesalers on suspicion that they were artificially raising onion prices and trying to “illegally overthrow” the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Pro-government headlines included “Police find onions in onion storehouse,” which in America would be a headline from The Onion. At around the same time, Erdogan claimed the US was plotting to economically damage Turkey just as his government signed a deal with US management consultant McKinsey to help Ankara implement a new medium-term economic program.

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