Turkey

The ongoing fight against the movement of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, referred to by government officials as the “parallel state,” marked the Dec. 30, 2014 meeting of Turkey’s top national security body.

Turkey will not include the largest hydropower plants in the privatization plan, even though investors have offered up to $20 billion to buy one of them, said Energy Minister Taner Yıldız Dec. 30.

2014 was a “deadly” year for Turkey and for the country’s workers. Fatal mining and construction accidents left hundreds of workers dead and big scars for their families as well as in our memories.

Turkey will drop to the 19th place on the list of the world's biggest economies in 2014, from the 17th place in 2013, according to the World Economic League Table by the Center for Economics and Business Research (CEBR).

Opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) deputy group leader Oktay Vural has accused the government of failing to exert control in the southeast amid recent unrest.

Vural said de facto autonomy had been announced in the southeastern part of the country and that the government had failed to maintain control over the region.

Three Turkish workers have been killed due to a collapse at a tunnel construction site on a highway near Arbil.

The construction of a portion of the highway between Arbil and Salahaddin is being done by a Turkish company.

Russia’s proposal to sell gas to Europe via Turkey with the so-called ‘Turkish Stream’ will jeopardize Ankara’s strategic importance, according to an energy expert.

Russia’s proposal to sell gas to Europe via Turkey, the so called ‘Turkish Stream’ will jeopardize Ankara’s strategic importance, according to an energy expert.

Police have captured provocateurs who infiltrated into Turkey to start clashes in Turkey’s southeastern province of Şırnak that left three people dead, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said Dec. 28.

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and Turkey's Hizbullah, whose members are mostly Kurdish Islamists, have engaged in fresh street battles in a southeastern province near Turkey's border with Syria, killing at least three, more than two months after the clashes that led to the deaths of 36 people.