state statistics agency

Türkiye's inflation rate slowed for a third successive month in January, data from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) have shown.

Consumer prices grew at an annual rate of 57.68 percent in January compared to 64.3 percent in December last year, according to the state statistics agency.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has appointed a new justice minister and head of the state statistics agency, according to the Official Gazette published on Jan. 29. 

Erhan Çetinkaya has replaced Sait Erdal Dinçer as the head of statistics agency. 

For five generations, Ahmet's family has farmed the rich agricultural land of Thrace in northwestern Turkey.

On 15 acres, the family for years grew sunflower, sugar beet and wheat.

Car owners in the Balkans are fuming over the rising price of fuel and threatening to protest this month, piling pressure on governments to rein in costs to consumers who fear a knock-on effect on the price of food and other goods.

Oil prices hit three-and-a-half year highs last month, twice topping $80 per barrel and pushing up prices at fuel pumps.

Russia's gross domestic product (GDP) fell 3.7 percent in 2015 as the country's energy-dependent economy reeled from low oil prices, the state statistics agency said on Jan. 25, citing preliminary data.

Greek unions planned protests in Athens and other cities on jUNE 11 over the prospect of new austerity cuts demanded by the country's international creditors.

A small group of activists from the pro-Communist Pame trade union occupied the finance ministry in the early morning, taking down the EU flag and unfurling a massive banner which said Greeks "had bled enough."  

Greeces leftist government on Monday outlined a first batch of measures to combat poverty to be approved by parliament in coming days.

According to a government document seen by AFP, the measures include free electricity, rent support and food stamps.