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Hyundai suspends production in Turkey for a month due to plummeting sales

Hyundai Motor Co.’s car plant in Turkey, which is a production base for the European market, will halt operations for 30 days as the company’s sales...

Turks highest-spending tourists in Greek border regions: report

Turkish tourists were the highest-spending foreign tourists in the Greek border regions of East Macedonia and Thrace in the first three quarters of 2019, the Hürriyet Daily...

Egyptian police raid Anadolu news agency’s office in Cairo, detaining 4

Egyptian police on Tuesday evening raided the Cairo office of Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency and detained four employees, according to the agency. The detainees, one of them...

Turkey’s budget posts deficit of $21 bln in 2019, despite use of legal reserves

Turkey’s central budget showed a deficit of TL 123.7 billion ($21 billion) in 2019, TL 30.8 billion of which was recorded in December, the Diken news...

Turkish religious authority issues fatwa allowing gov’t to take out interest-bearing loans

A new fatwa from Turkey’s top religious authority on Tuesday said the government was allowed to take out loans with interest for its public housing projects,...

Turkish startup receives $40 mln injection from Silicon Valley investor

A Turkish startup offering ultrafast deliveries has secured almost $40 million in funding from a group of investors led by Silicon Valley venture capitalist Michael Moritz, in...

Russian jets hit several Syrian towns despite ceasefire deal with Turkey: report

Russian jets struck several rebel-held towns in northwest Syria’s Idlib region for the first time since a ceasefire agreed with Turkey came into force two days...

US reluctance causes delay in delivery of Turkish helicopters to Pakistan

Pakistan has extended the deadline for Turkish Aerospace Industries to deliver 30 T129 helicopter gunships on order, amid US reluctance to grant Turkey technology export licenses,...

US ambassador to Greece says Turkey-Libya accord ‘unproductive and provocative’

Stepping up American support, the US ambassador to Greece, Geoffrey Pyatt, said a deal between Libya and Turkey to divide the seas between them – Turkey...

1,077 Turkish citizens applied for asylum in Belgium in 2019

A total of 1,077 Turkish citizens sought asylum in Belgium in 2019, according data released by the Office of the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless...

HRW calls on Turkey to release jailed critics, respect election results

The prolonged and arbitrary detention of journalists, human rights defenders and politicians blights Turkey’s claims of being a country that respects human rights and the rule of...

Turkey set to lift access ban on Wikipedia after 32 months

The Turkish Constitutional Court on Wednesday issued a detailed version of its December ruling that a 32-month block on access to online encyclopedia Wikipedia in Turkey...

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