Latest News from Turkey
Bulgarian Border Police Records Triple Increase in Illegal Migrant Crossings
Bulgarian Border Police registered a triple increase in the number of illegal migrant crossings of the border with Turkey in the first three months of 2015.
A total of 956 people were detained as they attempted to cross the border illegally, which is almost a triple increase compared to the same period in 2014.
FDI in Turkey was $2.7 billion in first two months of year: Ministry
Turkey received a total of $2.7 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) in January and February, a decrease of 2.5 percent compared with same period last year.
The country received $954 million in February and $1.757 billion in January, according to data released by the Turkish Economy Ministry on April 20.
Investors wonder most about future of stability in Turkey: Babacan
Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan has said the most common question to him during his latest U.S. visit has been about whether political stability will remain after the June 7 elections and if the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) will keep governing the country.
Turkey detains UK family suspected of joining ISIL
A couple and their four children from England, who were allegedly trying to cross into Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), have been detained in Ankara, police officials have told Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency.
Two men accused of migrant smuggling face prosecutor over deadly shipwreck
Two Syrian men aged 26 and 27 are to face a prosecutor on Tuesday after migrants rescued from a shipwreck that claimed at least three lives off the coast of the southeastern Aegean island of Rhodes told police they had paid the pair to arrange the trip from Turkey to Greece.
Migrants cling to debris, pulled onto rocks in Rhodes (photos + videos)
At least three migrants - a man, a woman and a child - drowned when a boat carrying dozens of migrants ran aground off the coast of Rhodes on Monday morning. Local Greek website Rodiaki featured footage from the scene at Zephyros beach showing a young child being pulled onto the rocks by local coast guards.
Certain inexplicable things about Turkey
Not a day goes by without hearing about another tragedy of immigrants dying on their way to find better lives. As the instability that followed the Arab spring has deteriorated the situation in the Middle East, we see more and more immigrant stories making the headlines.
Erdo?an makes presidential intentions clearer
With the elections nearing, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has started to spell out more clearly the kind of presidential system he wants for Turkey. He says they are studying examples from the U.S. and France to Argentina, Mexico and Brazil. He nevertheless wants a system that is suited to Turkey?s ?customs and traditions.?
Bypassing mediocracy, but how?
Opposition leader Kemal K?l?çdaro?lu released his party?s election manifesto on the weekend, summing up the economic picture as this:
Turkey went down to 19th place from 17th place in the list of leading economies in the world. Because its income per capita for the past six years could not cross $10,000, it has fallen into the ?medium income? trap.
'Germany is waiting for you!'
In both German and Turkish, this slogan is written on the red pencil cases distributed to the participants of the ?pre-integration courses? at the Goethe Institute in Istanbul. Immigrants who wish to settle in Germany for the purpose of ensuring family reunification are obliged to pass a language test in their home country as a mandatory requirement for obtaining a visa.
April 24 to be commemorated in Turkey, PM says
The April 24, the day Armenians commemorated the mass killings of their ancestors at the hands of the Ottoman Empire during the World War I, will also be marked through a religious ceremony to be held by the Armenian Patriarchate, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu said, while opposing efforts to describe 1915 events as genocide.
Serbian textile makers want black market curbed
BELGRADE - Representatives of the Serbian textile industry on Monday urged for stepped-up inspection of the black market of textile products from China and Turkey as around 80 percent of legal Serbian clothing makers face the threat of collapsing.
Turkey's Roma singer praises 'itsy-bitsy chirpy' PM for reform promises
Well-known Turkish Roma singer Kibariye has praised the Turkish prime minister for being an ?itsy-bitsy chirpy prime minister, just like me,? after a meeting with Ahmet Davuto?lu over the rights and demands of Roma people in Turkey.
New Party calls for resolution condemning Armenian Genocide
BELGRADE - MPs of the opposition New Party (NS) submitted to the Serbian parliament Monday a draft resolution on the recognition and condemnation of genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian people in the period from 1915 to 1922.
Turkish court fines South Korean Embassy 1 million TL for not paying employee's insurance
A Turkish court has ruled for the South Korean Embassy in Ankara to pay a total of 1 million Turkish Liras in unpaid insurance premiums and other monies owed to one of its former employees.