Latest News from Turkey
Turkey's voters need to feel safe to go to polls, US envoy says
All voters in Turkey need to feel safe enough to go to the ballot boxes, U.S. Ambassador to Ankara John Bass has said amid debates about the ramifications of moving polling stations in some southeastern districts due to recent violence.
Toshiba management faces investor wrath over accounting scandal
Toshiba executives on Sept. 30 faced the wrath of shareholders who demanded an explanation after one of Japan's best-known companies was hammered by a billion-dollar accounting scandal.
Turkey's defense industry to display products in Qatar
High-Tech Port by MÜS?AD, a defense industry fair organized by the Independent Industrialists? and Businessmen?s Association (MÜS?AD), will be held in the Qatari capital of Doha to display products and services of Turkey?s leading defense companies.
Turkey may revise vehicle emissions testing methods: Official
Turkey will revise its vehicle emissions testing methodology if it finds that emissions between idling and moving vehicles vary significantly, an environmental ministry official said Sept. 29.
The official's comments come after Volkswagen's admission it rigged diesel emissions tests in the United States.
CHP to campaign on good governance, Kurdish issue and economy
Turkey's Republican People's Party (CHP) has presented a detailed framework for its program ahead of the Nov. 1 elections, listing concrete and down-to-earth promises it says will solve problems in the divisive issues of democracy and the rule of law, the economy, foreign policy, education, as well as societal peace and the Kurdish issue.
Ruined slums turn into dormitories for migrants in ?zmir
In Basmane, a district of ?zmir where refugees from Iraq, Somalia and mostly Syria reside, ruined houses have turned into cheap dormitories for migrants who flocked to the city in attempt to escape to Europe and left on the streets due to lack of accommodation.
Turkey's Y?ld?r?m buys Portugal's port, logistics company
Turkey?s Y?ld?r?m Holding has announced it acquired Portuguese Mota-Engil Group?s port management company Tertir Terminais de Portugal and logistics company Mota-Engil Logistica SGPS, which have 275 million euros in equity value.
New details emerge about Hrant Dink's murder
Police officer Muhittin Zenit, who had been in contact with a key informant in murder of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, has said he was prevented from giving testimony in the slaying by former police intelligence chiefs Ramazan Akyürek and Ali Fuat Y?lmazer.
Turkish military says bombarded 24 PKK targets in southeast
Turkish warplanes struck 24 targets in a bombardment of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) positions in the southeastern province of Hakkari late on Sept. 29, the military said.
The targets destroyed in border towns of Yüksekova and Da?l?ca were mainly weapon emplacements and shelters, the army said in a statement on Sept. 30.
Effect of Fed rate hike overrated, Turkish deputy PM says
The effect of an interest rate rise by the U.S. Federal Reserve will roil markets but should not be overrated, Deputy Turkish Prime Minister Cevdet Y?lmaz said Sept. 30.
Speaking to Anadolu Agency during a visit to New York, Y?lmaz said the world economy had been affected by the possibility of a Fed rate hike, the ongoing slowdown in the Chinese economy and weak commodity prices.
One migrant dead, five others missing in Aegean boat capsizing
One Syrian migrant has died and five others are reported missing after an inflatable boat carrying migrants capsized off Turkey's northwestern coast late on Sept. 29.
The body of the dead migrant was found in a coastguard search after the Greece-bound inflatable migrant boat carrying Syrians capsized off Enez, a district in the northwestern province of Edirne.
Dacic meets with colleagues from Turkey, Fiji, Bosnia
Serbian FMs Ivica Dacic has conferred in New York with his counterparts from Turkey and Bosnia-Herzegovina Feridun Hadi Sinirlioglu and Igor Crnadak.
The ministers welcomed on Tuesday the first meeting of the Trilateral Trade Committee of Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Turkey held in Ankara on August 17-18 and the forthcoming trilateral business forum in Sarajevo on October 20.
Turkey drops six places in world competitiveness report
Turkey has declined six places to 51st out of 140 economies in this year's World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Competitiveness Index, mainly due to the deterioration in the country's institutional structure and rising political uncertainties holding back private investments.
Turkey's Court of Appeals decides for ex-minister to pay compensation for obeying court order
Turkey?s Supreme Court of Appeals has decided former Education Minister Hüseyin Çelik and three bureaucrats to pay compensation to a former provincial education head of the Giresun province on grounds of not applying a court order, which had ruled for the latter?s return of duty.
Turkey's Court of Appeals decides for ex-minister to pay compensation for not obeying court order
Turkey?s Supreme Court of Appeals has decided former Education Minister Hüseyin Çelik and three bureaucrats to pay compensation to a former provincial education head of the Giresun province on grounds of not applying a court order, which had ruled for the latter?s return of duty.