Turchia
Vai alla Scheda Paese »Sovereignty belongs unconditionally to the people
— Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
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Confidence in Turkey’s sectors largely flat in December
Confidence in Turkey’s retail trade and construction sectors recorded a slight advance in December while the services sector slipped, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) announced on Dec. 26
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Police school changed assassin of Russian envoy: Sister
Going to police school changed Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, the off-duty police officer who killed Russia’s ambassador to Turkey last week, according to the deceased officer’s sister
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Four airlines among Turkey’s top 10 service exporters
Turkish Airlines and Pegasus Airlines were named Turkey’s top service exporters, followed by Çalık Energy, in a competition by the Turkish Exporters’ Assembly (TİM) in coordination with the Economy Ministry late on Dec. 24 in an award ceremony
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Updated (2): Firefighters, waiters, journalists - the thousands working on Christmas Day
For many of us Christmas is all about spending the day with our families and loved ones, with the main highlight of the day being the traditional Christmas lunch.But thousands of workers are not so lucky and have to work on 25 December.Naturally, these include the disciplined forces. Crime does ...
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The traditional Christmas dish remains stuffed turkey, but other influences creeping in
The traditional Christmas Day main dish remains the stuffed turkey, however other influences have begun to inch their way into Maltese cuisine.Food and Beverage Director at the Intercontinental Malta Nikolai Calleja told The Malta Independent that every Maltese looks for the traditional turkey with stuffing during this Christmas season, not ...
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Situation in Syria still "catastrophic'' - UN relief chief
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: Syrian Arab Republic"The evacuation of East Aleppo may have concluded, but 700,000 civilians are still trapped in besieged locations while humanitarians continue to struggle to access them", the Security Council was told. As delivered to the Council by OCHA Officer-in-Charge, Director of ...
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US ‘found no involvement of Turkey in ISIL oil trade’
The United States has not discovered any involvement by Turkey in the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) oil trade, the country’s ambassador to Ankara has said
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Turkey urges Iran for withdrawal of foreign militia from Syria
Ankara has urged Tehran to effect the immediate withdrawal of Shiite militants from Syria amid the announcement of plans for a trilateral meet among Turkey, Russia and Iran in Astana in mid-February 2017
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Foreign investment in Turkey hit $889 mln in October
Turkey received $889 million in foreign direct investment (FDI) in October, the Turkish Economy Ministry said on Dec. 23
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Turkey’s housing sales soar by over 25 percent, sales to foreigners continue to decline
Turkey’s property sales soared to 132,655 units in November with a 25.1 percent increase compared to the same month of 2015, but the declining trend in sales to foreigners continued, data from the Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜİK) showed on Dec. 23
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A murder, an accord and the end of Ankara’s ‘Assad must go’ policy
When news broke of the horrendous murder of Russian Ambassador Andrey Karlov in the heart of the Turkish capital, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu was on his way to Moscow to meet his Russian and Iranian counterparts for critical talks on Syria.
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How many other like-minded officers do we have in the police force?
According to news reports, the assassin who killed the Russian Federation’s ambassador was on duty for eight of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s events in Ankara.
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Electricity consumption soars as Turkey ditches winter time: Association
Turkey’s electricity consumption surged sharply in November due to the country’s move to ditch the winter time system, despite a slight slowdown in the economy and moderate weather conditions, a sector association said Dec. 21
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Turkey’s GDP could soar 20 pct if women’s participation in labor force doubled: Study
Turkey can increase its GDP 20 percent by 2025 if it can boost the average number of women in the labor force from 30 percent to the OECD average at 63 percent, according to a study by worldwide management consulting firm McKinsey & Company in cooperation with the Turkish Industry ...
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One sentence explaining everything
Two statements, one after the other, came on the day the Russian Foreign Ministry announced the “Syria Summit” to be held together with Turkey and Iran.
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Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank approves $600 mln loan for Azerbaijan-Turkey gas pipeline
The China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has approved a $600 million loan to finance a natural gas pipeline from Azerbaijan through Turkey, it said Dec. 21, taking its total loans in its inaugural year to $1.73 billion
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Russian leader attends memorial for assassinated envoy Karlov
Senior Russian leaders attended a memorial for Andrey Karlov, Russia’s assassinated ambassador to Turkey, at the country’s Foreign Ministry in Moscow on Dec. 22.
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Turkish authorities release detained relatives of Russian ambassador killer
Turkish authorities have released the relatives of an off-duty policeman who assassinated Russian Ambassador to Ankara Andey Karlov, Doğan News Agency has reported on Dec. 22.
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Updated (5): Islamic State claims Berlin Christmas market attack; Germany frees man arrested
The Islamic State extremist group is claiming responsibility for the truck attack on a Berlin Christmas market that killed 12 people and left nearly 50 injured.The Islamic State group's Amaq news agency said in a statement Tuesday that "the person who carried out the truck run over attack in Berlin ...
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Shanghai and Istanbul to ‘write new history’
A road map with nine steps to make Turkey-China economic relations sustainable and balanced has been released by the Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEİK) and Turkey-China Business Council
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Turkey, Russia ‘know’ FETÖ behind attack on Russian envoy: Turkish FM tells Kerry
Turkey and Russia “know” that a movement led by U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gülen was behind the attack on the Russian envoy in Ankara, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Cavuşoğlu told his U.S. counterpart John Kerry in a phone conversation