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Türkiye appoints new environment, health ministers

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan appointed new health and environment ministers in a minor reshuffle of his cabinet early on July 2.

According to the country's official gazette, Murat Kurum will replace Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change Minister Mehmet Özhaseki, who has tendered his resignation over "health reasons."

Erdoğan pledges economic focus until next elections

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has outlined his administration's intentions to tackle economic challenges over the next four years leading up to the 2028 elections.

Addressing the nation in a video message on April 9, marking Eid al-Fitr, Erdoğan addressed the urgency of combating the high cost of living and inflation.

Türkiye's first female treasury director passes away

Aysel Öymen, Türkiye's first female director general of the Treasury and wife of journalist and former Republican People's Party (CHP) chairman Altan Öymen, has passed away at the age of 96.

Öymen graduated from Ankara University's Faculty of Political Sciences, held various diplomatic posts abroad and became Türkiye's first female director general of the Treasury in 1978.

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