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Outrage over alleged safety failures at a 12-storey hotel in Turkey has escalated into a political clash between the government and the opposition-run local authorities, after a fire killed 79 ...
The politics of Turkey take place in the framework of a constitutional republic and presidential system, with various levels and branches of power. Turkey's political system is based on a separation of powers .
The Turkish lira fell to new lows this week, equivalent to a 19% slump against the dollar since February. Economic mismanagement has intensified the currency crisis. Policy-related risk is likely ...
Turkey's exports as percentage of imports. A longstanding characteristic of Turkey's economy is a low savings rate. [17] Since Recep Tayyip Erdoğan assumed control of the government, Turkey has been running huge and growing current account deficits, $33.1 billion in 2016 and $47.3 billion in 2017, [18] climbing to US$7.1 billion in the month of January 2018 with the rolling 12-month deficit ...
The PKK was formed in an effort to establish linguistic, cultural, and political rights for Turkey's Kurdish minority. [89] However, the full-scale insurgency did not begin until 15 August 1984, when the PKK announced a Kurdish uprising. Since the conflict began, more than 40,000 have died, the vast majority of whom were Kurdish civilians. [90]
Tens of thousands of Russians who fled to Turkey after Moscow's invasion of Ukraine have moved on to other countries in the last year, squeezed by residency issues and soaring costs, according to ...
While Turkey's policy against Iraq since the 2003 war had focused on preventing the rise of an autonomous or independent Kurdish political entity and eliminating the presence of the Kurdish Workers’Party in Northern Iraq, its policy under the influence of Davutoğlu's doctrine moved from containment to engagement.
Anti-migrant sentiment, economic woes and political pressures are leading some of the 3.3 millions Syrians living in Turkey to plan a return to Syria or seek shelter in Europe, according to ...