Turkey

Turkey's top election authority has refused to take the blame for the leak of a database which appeared to contain personal information on nearly 50 million Turkish citizens, while a member of the main opposition party has suggested the leak was "an operation" by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government aiming to control the election system.

When developing Asia was in crisis in the 1990s, the world valiantly upheld monetary orthodoxy. Then Europe went into crisis in 2008, and world leaders came up with unconventional monetary policy. That's when we all learned about monetary easing and negative interest rates. So the poor were forced into discipline, while the rich could indulge in "helicopter money." Well, guess what?

A deal reached between Turkey and the European Union on March 18 in Brussels has begun implementation starting from April 4, as Greece deported hundreds of irregular immigrants to Turkey while Turkey shipped an almost equal number of Syrian refugees to some European countries last week.

Give up on the Democratic Union Party [PYD] and instead let us fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant [ISIL] along with the Turkmen and Arab groups." This was the proposal made by the Turkish officials to their American counterparts last week during President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an's trip to the U.S.

A day after U.S. Ambassador to Ankara John Bass told reporters on April 7 that the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) should lay down arms, he was responded to by a major PKK figure, who said the U.S. should instead put pressure on Turkey. Zübeyr Aydar, a Brussels-based chief of PKK front organization the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), said what the U.S.

Turkey's top election authority has refused to take the blame for the leak of a database which appeared to contain personal information on nearly 50 million Turkish citizens, while a member of the main opposition party has suggested the leak was "an operation" by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government aiming to control the election system.

Paris attacks suspect Mohamed Abrini was arrested on April 8, a police source told AFP after a Belgian television station said he was detained in a Brussels district.

An exhibition, organized by the Istanbul Entertainment Group and Dubai sheik Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktum's company Meraas and inspired by popular Turkish TV series "Magnificient Century," has opened in Dubai CityWalk. 

XJAZZ Festival, Berlin's biggest jazz festival, will come to Istanbul and Ankara between April 12 and 17. 

U.N. special envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura said April 7 that the next round of Syria peace talks will begin on April 13 after he completes a diplomatic tour, including stops in Damascus and Tehran, a push back from the formerly announced date of April 11.