Turkey says EU needs to take concrete steps for better ties
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called on the European Union to stop “playing for time” and making conditional remarks about Turkey, urging the bloc to...
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German-Turks to give Merkel’s party a nudge at the ballot box
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives are likely to get a boost from an unexpected quarter at the general election in September: the German-Turkish community. A young...
EU should deepen trade with Turkey but ready sanctions, internal report says
The European Union should start negotiations on deeper trade ties with Turkey, an EU candidate, but should be ready to impose economic sanctions if Ankara...
Turkish opposition slams Erdogan after cenbank governor ousted
Opposition parties say Turkey is paying a steep price for President Tayyip Erdogan’s wayward economic policies after his shock firing of the central bank governor...
EU sanctions remain on the table, Germany warns Turkey
By Sabine Siebold European Union sanctions against Turkey remain on the table, Germany warned on Monday, after Ankara decided to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention,...
Turkish lira plunges 15%; near all-time low at 9.59 to euro
The Turkish lira plunged on Sunday night, immediately after the re-opening of major foreign exchange markets, after President Tayyip Erdogan sacked the country’s hawkish central...
Europe presses Turkey to rethink ditching violence-on-women pact
By Jonathan Spicer European leaders criticised what they called Turkey’s baffling and concerning decision to pull out of an international accord designed to protect women...
Erdogan quits European treaty on violence against women
President Tayyip Erdogan pulled Turkey out of an international accord designed to protect women, the country’s official gazette said on Saturday, despite calls from campaigners...
Erdogan fires central bank governor after interest-rate hike
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan removed the governor of the country’s central bank late on Friday, just after that official had presided over an interest-rate...
Move to ban Kurdish party shows Erdogan’s march to nationalism
In the early days of peace talks with Kurdish militants in 2013, Turkey’s then-Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan spoke out against ethnic divisions and declared, “we...
