Latest News from Turkey

The Housing Development Administration of Turkey (TOK?) has been building three new "giant container cities" for Syrians in the southern Turkish provinces of Hatay and Kahramanmara?, hosting up to 40,000 refugees.

The container city being built in Kahramanmara? has already led to angry protests from local Alevis, who fear that the province's sensitive demography will be unsettled.

Hundreds of migrants are feared to have died in a new migrant tragedy in the Mediterranean, Italian President Sergio Mattarella said on April 18. 

Unconfirmed media reports earlier on the same day spoke of up to 400 victims from boats that capsized near the Egyptian coast as they attempted to sail to Europe. 

Turkey's non-investing economy is not sustainable, according to Daron Acemo?lu, an economy professor from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who highlighted that Turkey's "story" should be about investment and productivity, not the non-investing "bad" growth that comes from domestic consumption.

More than 1 million season tickets and one day entry cards have been sold for EXPO 2016 Antalya, just days before one of the leading global horticultural exhibitions opens its doors to tourists from Turkey and abroad.

An alleged senior figure of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), who had been the subject of an international arrest warrant and caught in Stockholm, will be extradited to Germany in 15 days, a Swedish court has ruled. 

One worker was killed while four others were wounded when a fire erupted at Turkey's largest oil refinery, Tüpra?, in the northwestern province of Kocaeli.  

Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis blasted French President Francois Hollande, during his appearance at a rally by French workers in Paris, who were protesting against Hollnde’s labour market reforms. Varoufakis, who showed up at the gathering in a show of solidarity, received a rock star’s reception by the gathered demonstrators.