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“The state’s essence and raison d’etre is to maintain security for justice” said Haşim Kılıç, the president of Turkey’s Constitutional Court. “If that fails, political, economic and social crises become inevitable.”

The CEO of Turkey’s largest private airline company says young entrepreneurs are brave enough to promote their ideas but don’t have proper plans to bring their ideas to life.

The European Investment Bank has included Turkey into its new program to boost innovation in the EU, with Tofaş becoming the first Turkish firm to make a deal with the bank he European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed a 55 million-euro agreement to support research, development and innovation activities with a Turkish company in the framework of its newly launched financial program to encoura

The Partners Group, a global private markets investment manager, has announced the acquisition of a 30 percent stake in Turkish natural gas distributor Enerya on behalf of its clients.

Hüseyin Gülerce, a long-time columnist for daily Zaman, known for links to the Fettulah Gülen movement, has resigned, according to news portal İnternethaber.

Sedat Ergin, Hürriyet’s new editor-in-chief, has been introduced to the employees of Turkey’s leading newspaper at the company’s headquarters in Istanbul.

“Our destiny is in our name. One word: Hürriyet,” chairwoman Vuslat Doğan Sabancı said at the ceremony on Aug. 25, referring to the newspaper’s title, which means “Freedom” in Turkish.

A Turkish aid official in the blockaded Gaza Strip has joined a trending campaign to support ALS research, but instead of pouring ice-cold water over himself, he used dust in solidarity with the children of Gaza.
      

Leading Turkish civil society organizations have voiced their concerns over the violation of fundamental human rights in China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, pledging to take the issue to international organizations and observers.

Two shareholders of Turkey’s largest mobile operator Turkcell, Turkish Çukurova Holding and Russian Altimo, have reached an agreement in an ongoing legal battle, a U.K. court looking into the legal dispute between parties has announced.

Turkey’s Economy Ministry has vowed to pursue the punishment of those responsible for an “orientalist”-toned organization held at the Turkish pavilion in a Parisian textile fair, describing the activities as an “assault on Turkish culture.”