Sexual assault and harassment allegations have shaken Turkey’s literary world, creating a rare #MeToo moment as women break taboos and speak out in the still largely patriarchal country. It is not the …
Turkey jails Kurdish former MP on terror charges
A court in Turkey has sentenced a prominent Kurdish opposition figure to 22 years in prison on terror charges. Leyla Güven, of the People’s Democratic Party (HDP), was convicted of membership of a …
Where I live, the hipsters have fled, leaving me to bag the very last turkey
I was out with the family near our home in east London when the news binning Christmas was announced. At dusk on Columbia Road in Shoreditch the shoppers, strollers, traders and buskers — even the …
New future for Turkey-US strategic trade partnership
U.S. relations, which date back to strategic and global security partnerships when polarization between the Eastern and Western political ideologies was the most rigid, …
Turkey orders ‘scaled down’ after tier four announcement, butchers say
Many people are scaling down their previous turkey orders after they had to reorganise their Christmas plans because tier four restrictions banned households from mixing on the day. Six different …
Turkey’s prefab hospitals leading fight against coronavirus
As Turkey faces a dramatic rise in COVID-19 infections during the pandemic’s second wave, hospitals that were quickly built in the early days of the outbreak are dealing with some of the country’s mos …
Covid: Royal Mail halts deliveries to mainland Europe, Canada and Turkey
Move comes after countries stop flights and freight from UK over fears of new coronavirus variant …
Turkish Foreign Minister Çavuşoğlu to visit Bangladesh from Tuesday
Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, the foreign minister of Turkey, is arriving in Dhaka on Tuesday on a two-day working visit. Çavuşoğlu is expected to meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the Turkish Embassy in Dhaka …
Turkey: World Bank okays $300M for micro, small firms
The World Bank on Monday announced that under a new project it will provide a finance of $300 million to help avert the closure of viable micro- and small-enterprises (MSEs) in Turkey amid the …
World Bank OKs $300M of financing for Turkey’s micro, small businesses
The World Bank on Monday announced that under a new project, it will provide financing worth $300 million (TL 2.3 billion) to help avert the closure of viable micro and …