ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Wednesday that Ankara could help end the Ukraine-Russia war, but Putin’s spokesman said Erdogan could not play the role of an intermediary in the 28-month-old conflict. Erdogan, speaking to Putin on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Kazakhstan, said […]
Coca-Cola İçecek (CCI) has secured four loans from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to support its ESG efforts in four countries. The loans, totalling $250m, will be used on projects at CCI’s facilities in Turkey and its three subsidiaries in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Iraq. IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, said the financing […]
Every time Turkish farmer Fatih Sik drives his tractor across his cornfields he knows the earth could open up and swallow him at any moment. Two giant sinkholes have already appeared on his land in Konya, a vast agricultural province known as Turkey’s breadbasket. “Anywhere could sink, I keep thinking. And I know I’d be […]
(Bloomberg) — Turkey posted its biggest monthly budget surplus on record as the government shifts to repairing public finances to complement monetary policies geared toward bringing down inflation. Most Read from Bloomberg The central budget balance recorded a 219 billion-lira surplus ($6.7 billion) in May, the most in data that stretches back to 2006. It […]
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday dismissed criticism of Turkey’s new education curriculum and vowed to prioritise “national values” in the face of worries that the changes will erode schools’ scientific and secularist foundations. Late last month Ankara approved the curriculum, dubbed the “Turkey Century Education Model”, which will roll out gradually from […]
By Aditi Shah DUBAI (Reuters) – Turkey’s Pegasus Airlines will in the coming months begin work on its next plane order as it looks to continue its fast-paced growth into the next decade, the budget carrier’s CEO told Reuters on Sunday. Pegasus, which has seen a rapid recovery in travel after the pandemic, placed an […]
MOSCOW/ANKARA (Reuters) – Russia welcomes Turkey’s reported desire to become part of the BRICS group of nations, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday, saying the subject would be on the agenda of the organisation’s next summit. Peskov said there was heightened interest in BRICS – a group comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, […]
STORY: :: Animal activists are criticizing Turkey’s plan to euthanize unadopted stray dogs :: Istanbul, Turkey :: Nilgul Sayar, Animal Rights Activist :: “(The municipalities) say they will collect the dogs from the streets, but there is no capacity to take them all. A group of dogs will be collected and kept for 30 days, […]
May 31—The word about Eastern Washington’s robust turkey populations is out. Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife officials say they are seeing an increase in nonresident turkey hunters who travel far to chase gobblers in the Inland Northwest. Todd Baarstad, the department’s private land biologist for Lincoln, Ferry, Stevens and Pend Oreille counties, said he’s […]
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s president took a swipe at the Eurovision Song Contest on Monday, accusing the annual event of allegedly encouraging “gender neutralization” and threatening the traditional family. In a speech following a Cabinet meeting, Recep Tayyip Erdogan described participants at the contest as the “Trojan horses of social corruption” and said his […]
Turkey’s president has taken a swipe at the Eurovision Song Contest, accusing the annual event of encouraging “gender neutralisation” and threatening the traditional family. In a speech following a Cabinet meeting, Recep Tayyip Erdogan described participants at the contest as the “Trojan horses of social corruption” and said his government was right to keep Turkey […]
MERSIN, Turkey — Turkish drone manufacturer Baykar has delivered to Poland the final batch of Bayraktar TB2 combat systems ordered for $270 million, the company announced. Poland signed a deal in May 2021 for the drones and associated equipment. The contract stipulated the delivery of four systems, each of which include six aircraft and three […]