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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has taken the unusual and potentially dangerous to the economy step of firing the governor of the supposedly independent central bank due to a dispute over interest rates. Murat Cetinkaya who had been in the position since April 2016 has been replaced by his deputy. President Erdogan has been calling…
Turkey’s President and the AK Party effectively shot themselves in the foot by ordering a re-run of May’s Mayoral election which saw main opposition party candidate Ekrem Imamoglu win Istanbul by 13,000 votes. Obviously unhappy at the decision President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed the vote was invalid on spurious grounds and the result is a…
What do you do as Turkish President if your prefered candidate loses a democratically voted mayoral election – why declare it illegal and have the vote again in the hope you get the “right” result the second time. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hasn’t done himself or his country any favours as this looks…
A horrific high-speed train crash at a station in the Turkish capital Ankara has killed at least nine people and injured 47. Pictures from the tragic incident show firefighters and paramedics desperately trying to rescue survivors in the wreckage. Reports quoting local officials said the high speed train had crashed another train, then proceeded to…
Turkey is continuing to press on with demands for a full and open investigation into the Murder of Saudi Journalist Jamal Khashoggi, something the Saudi & US administrations would like to suppress – it seems at any price given the recent US actions. It is easy to understand the Saudi position on this, however, the US administrations attempt…
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