Ties between NATO members Washington and Ankara hit a new low last month as US President Donald Trump announced steep new tariffs
The currency has been hit by concerns over monetary policy under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
A decade of unconventional monetary policy has stored up immense vulnerabilities in the world economy
President Donald Trump has been making good on his campaign pledges to slap punitive tariffs on countries he accuses of cheating American workers
As investors move away from risky emerging markets, the highly traded rand is caught up in the contagion
‘Although the timing of the Turkish crisis was unpredictable, the warning signs have been there for months’
Qatar pledges to make direct investment in Turkey, currently hit by currency crisis amid a diplomatic stand-off with US
Turkey would not need to impose capital controls to stem the plunge in the lira
The two countries are in disagreement over the Syria conflict and over the fate of Turkish preacher Fethullah Gulen
With investors already on edge over the China-US trade war, the lira’s collapse sparked a sell-off in Europe and New York at the end of last week
Released from prison in late December 2016, it took Asli Erdogan until last September to get her passport back from Turkish authorities
Activist Elin Ersson disobeyed authorities to delay the deportation of an Afghan asylum seeker, saying it is not right “to send people to hell”
Mesut Özil’s photo op with Recep Tayyip Erdogan was ill-advised. But the reaction to it is a sad tale of poor management
Erdem Gul, the Ankara bureau chief of the opposition Cumhuriyet daily, was acquitted by the Istanbul criminal court
The accident in May 2014 killed 301 people when one of the pits of the Soma mine became engulfed by flames and carbon monoxide gas
The Official Gazette said 18 632 people had been sacked including 8 998 police officers over suspected links to terror organisations
The stakes were particularly high as the new president will be the first to enjoy enhanced powers, without even a prime minister
As Qatar maintains there is ‘no legitimate justification’ for the blockade, the Gulf Cooperation Council turmoil remains unresolved one year later
Investors wary of Turkey’s monetary meddling jump ship to take advantage of rising US rates
Turkey’s presence in Somalia certainly embodies one of the most interesting regional geopolitical developments in the past decade.
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Taner Kılıç’s been held since June 2017, when he was detained on suspicion of being part of the group led by US-based Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen.
Rebels have told ‘Al Jazeera’ that Turkey has indirectly sent a stark warning to any faction that resists the operation.
Since 2012 then there has been a chilling increase in the number of women killed, often at the hands of men they know.
Constitutional changes transform Turkey from a parliamentary system to an executive presidency with more powers
Turkish government insists on holding campaign meetings in W-Europe, but Germany and the Netherlands will have none of it.
Truth Collective South Africa, told the media that it was working with Mohamed’s abductors, to have him returned home safely and unharmed.
State of emergency to be extended for as long as needed, deputy PM says, as victims of Reina shooting are laid to rest.
Famous nightclub on the Bosphorus attacked on New Year’s Eve, leaving at least 39 partygoers dead
An unidentified attacker shot a police officer and a civilian as he entered the club in the Ortakoy district of Istanbul
The Russian foreign ministry confirmed the death of envoy Andrei Karlov, which marked one of the most serious spillovers of the Syria conflict.
Turkey’s economy is growing faster than SA’s, so could political volatility tip us into being the next emerging market to be afforded junk status?
The rise of aggressive nationalism resembles that of the early 20th century and its atrocities of world and colonial wars.
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