Turkey and Belgium will join the international drone coalition to help support Ukraine in its war of attrition against Russia, Andris Spruds, the defense minister from Latvia, said last week.
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MAJOR PROTEST CONTINUES IN TURKEY OVER MAYOR’S ARREST
A massive protest broke out on Saturday in Istanbul, Turkey, demanding the release of Istanbul’s Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu—the chief political rival to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
ERDOGAN’S TOP RIVAL IS ARRESTED, SPARKING MASSIVE PROTESTS ACROSS TURKEY
Violent protests have broken out across Turkey over the arrest of Istanbul’s Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu—a political threat to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
SYRIA’S ASSAD FALLS AS U.S.-ISRAEL-TURKEY BACKED REBELS CONQUER DAMASCUS
Bashar al-Assad, the president of Syria, fled to Moscow on Sunday after a lightning fast offensive by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the Turkish-Israeli-U.S. backed group that invaded Syria’s Aleppo last week that continued on to Damascus and easily took control of the city.
TURKEY’S ECONOMIC SLOWS MOST IN FOUR YEARS
In this year’s second quarter, Turkey’s economy grew by 2.5 percent, the slowest since the same quarter in 2020, the country’s statistical institute reported.
TURKEY COULD INVADE ISRAEL TO SAVE PALESTINIANS FROM GENOCIDE, ERDOGAN SAYS
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish president, said Sunday that his armed forces may invade Israel on behalf of the Palestinians being butchered by the Israeli military in Gaza.
TURKEY’S VOTERS REBUKE ERDOGAN’S ECONOMIC POLICIES
On 31 March, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) led by Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan was drubbed in municipal elections, suffering what Bloomberg called “an unprecedented defeat.”
GAZA HAS BECOME ‘HELL ON EARTH’ AS MORE CHILDREN STARVE TO DEATH, TURKEY ACCUSES ISRAEL OF USING STARVATION AS WEAPON OF WAR
The number of children starving to death in Gaza continues to increase, with the number hitting at least 15 on Monday, including 10 who have died of dehydration and malnutrition in the northern Gaza Strip.
TURKEY’S CENTRAL BANK RAISES INTEREST RATE TO 40 PERCENT
Signaling a newfound seriousness about inflation, now running at about 61 percent, Turkey’s central bank raised its key interest rate by 5 points on 23 November to 40 percent, its highest level in almost 20 years.
TURKEY RAISES KEY INTEREST RATE BY 5 POINTS AT ONCE
On 21 September, Turkey’s central bank hiked its key one-week repo interest rate by a whopping five percentage points to 30 percent, matching economists’ forecast in a FactSet poll.