Goldman Sachs’ three-month target for a lira plunge happened in three days
Residents waiting at a bus stop under a large Turkish flag in Istanbul, Turkey, on Sunday, April 30, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Turkish lira has extended…
What Turkey’s new cabinet says about where the country is headed
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Erdogan’s new minister has markets hoping for Turkey orthodoxy
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has named former economy chief Mehmet Simsek as his new treasury and finance minister. Source: World Economic Forum In the unveiling of his new cabinet,…
NATO Turkey: Alliance is in a race against time to save itself from a major embarrassment
CNN — NATO officials are in a race against time to avoid the embarrassment of seeing the alliance miss its own stated aim of admitting Sweden to the alliance by…
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will leave for Turkey today
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will leave for Turkey this evening. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will attend the presidential swearing-in ceremony of Recep Tayyip Erdogan. According to the Foreign Office spokesperson,…
Erdogan intent on taking back Istanbul after presidential victory
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Putin congratulates ‘dear friend’ Erdogan as NATO’s Turkey challenge looks set to stay
Turkey on Sunday voted for another five years of the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the powerful, nationalist president who now enters his third decade in power. Russian President Vladimir…
Erdogan survived the biggest test of his political career. What’s next?
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Turkey’s lira sinks to fresh record low after Erdogan re-election
A man holding a Turkish flag. Uriel Sinai | Getty Images The Turkish lira sank to a fresh record low Monday as incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan secured his victory in…
Erdogan wins five more years as Turkey’s president
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appealed for national unity on Monday after winning a historic runoff election that extended two decades of his transformative but divisive rule until 2028. The…