Turkey's government

Metin Topuz, a Turkish employee in the U.S.'s Istanbul consulate, who has faced charges of espionage and attempting to overthrow Turkey's government, will remain in custody during his trial, according to ruling by a Turkish court on March 28.

Turkey's government will sell cheaper vegetables and fruits online besides their sales at physical points-of-sale set up in a number of districts by municipalities in the capital Ankara and Istanbul as part of efforts to fight against excessive price hikes which President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan recently described as "food terrorism."

The prosecution of a court case involving a reported conspiracy to overthrow Turkey's government dating back a decade has said the existence of the organization in question could not be conclusively proven, according to judicial sources on Friday.

AFP - Turkey on Friday threatened to respond if the United States levied further sanctions over the detention of an American pastor which has sparked a diplomatic standoff and battered the Turkish currency.

BANGKOK (AP) — World stock markets fell Friday, particularly in Europe, as investors worried about the financial stability of Turkey, where the currency has nosedived.

Turkish police launched a large scale operation across Turkey to detain a total of 121 former foreign ministry officials over their suspected ties to the Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ), Daily Sabah reported.

Global e-commerce companies will be liable for taxes on goods sold directly to Turkish customers under a draft law proposed by Turkey's government, Finance Minister Naci Ağbal said on Sept. 15.

He told the state-run Anadolu Agency that the budget deficit will be at around 60 billion Turkish Liras ($17.5 billion) by the end of the year.

Turkey ran a budget deficit of 25.2 billion Turkish Liras (about $6.9 billion) this January to June with fiscal measures to stimulate the economy costing nearly 12 billion liras ($3.3 billion), Finance Minister Naci Ağbal said on July 17.        

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Tuğrul Türkeş has said that the Dutch cabinet's reaction to his planned visit to the country is an "intervention to Turkish citizens' democratic rights."

Turkey is furious about the United States' decision to arm Kurdish forces in Syria, and rightly so. So far, both the Turkish government's Syrian and Kurdish policies have been, and still are, full of mistakes and miscalculations. In fact, from the beginning of the whole affair, I have been among the harsh critics of the both Syrian and Kurdish policies.