As Turkey Transitions, Central Bank Keeps Interest Rates On Hold
Turkish president-elect Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to be inaugurated as president Thursday, told his party that the birth of a new Turkey is taking shape. And as his parting speech permeated, the elephant in the room was Turkey’s rate decision today: Turkey ...
Turkey's Ruling Party Confirms Davutoglu As Prime Minister
Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has confirmed Ahmet Davutoglu as prime minister and party leader. The decision for Davutoglu to replace Turkish President-elect Recep Tayyip Erdogan as prime minister came at an AKP conference in Ankara ...
Turkey ruling party crowns Davutoglu as Erdogan successor
Ankara (AFP) - Turkey's ruling party on Thursday confirmed Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu as the successor to Recep Tayyip Erdogan as premier and party leader, with both men vowing the handover would herald no change in strategy. Erdogan, 60, is to be ...
Turkey Leaves Key Rate Unchanged as Easing Cycle Pauses
Turkey’s central bank left its benchmark repurchase rate unchanged for the first time since April, vowing to maintain a “tight monetary policy stance” to curb inflation. The lira gained to the highest level in two weeks after the Monetary Policy ...
New Turkey PM leaves troubled foreign policy legacy
Turkey's new premier and outgoing foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu leaves his successor a troubled legacy after a bold policy to expand Turkish influence across the ex-Ottoman empire left the country painfully exposed to the Syria and Iraq crises.
Turkey's Davutoglu elected leader of ruling AK Party
ANKARA (Reuters) - Ahmet Davutoglu was elected leader of Turkey's ruling AK Party on Wednesday in a televised ceremony, ahead of his expected appointment as prime minister on Thursday after Tayyip Erdogan is sworn in as president. Outgoing Foreign Minister ...
Freedom House sees regressive trends in Turkey's Internet freedoms
In a special report on Internet freedoms in Turkey, Freedom House expresses concern over the growing role of the state in Internet governance, classifying Turkey as a “battleground country” due to restrictions it has imposed on the Internet in the face ...
The Dangerous Drug That Has Taken Hold of Turkey
ISTANBUL, Turkey—The body of Volkan Senyurt was found slumped against a tree on a hill in Istanbul, one morning this summer. The 20-year-old had been home on a break from the military when he died. His lifelong friend and neighbor found the body.
Turkey: Chinese Workers Abducted
Kurdish separatists kidnapped three Chinese engineers in an area near a power plant in Turkey’s southeast, a regional government official said Tuesday. The attackers were believed to belong to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a militant group known as the ...
Turkey struggles as 'lone gatekeeper' against Islamic State recruitment
ISTANBUL/BEIRUT (Reuters) - As Islamic State insurgents threaten the Turkish border from Syria, Turkey is struggling to staunch the flow of foreign jihadists to the militant group, having not so long ago allowed free access to those who would join its ...
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C: - is now eating loads of baby foods: apples, mangos, pears, sweet potatoes, carrots, turkey and rice combo, spinach and fruit combo, among others. She also eats baby oatmeal like a champ. - lets her sister do things like put make- up on her face (pretend make- up, of course), and just keeps smili ...
Festa St Helena
Sunday 24th August There are fiestas all over Malta in July and August when each town spends up to 4 days celebrating the saint of its town. Today’s celebration was extra special because it was in the town of my buz Nannu (great grandfather) in the town of Birkirkara. It is the only parade that happ ...
Manufacturing the Enemy Du Jour
US Surveillance Flights A Step Toward Expanding War Into Syria I remember discussing this absurdity with my wife a couple of years ago. They were helping the Syrian Jihadis, who had massacred thousands already. They are the US, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and the rest of the NATO clowns. Probably Is ...
Preparing for winter with Stonewashed XL
Nu maak ik over héél veel dingen grappen, maar niet over het weer (ha!). En ik lieg niet als ik zeg dat het verschil tussen het weer in Turkije en het weer hier in Nederland maar liefst 20C is. Ja mensen, TWINGTIG graden verschil! Zodra wij terugkwamen van vakantie hadden wij écht de neiging om er m ...
27th of August, a few hours time for open field birds...
Today I did go to an area 10 min from our house. It is a field where the owner planned to make a development, it is not going on and the field is now messy, surrounded by dense brushes, scrubs and forest and fantastic for birds... It was cloudy and no wind. I did start with a buff rumped Warbler at ...
2nd Annual PPP in Turkey and the Black Sea Conference
12th November 2014 - Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey [Read More...]
More bird photos in Panama city: Río Matías Hernández
Just about 900 m from my house in Panama city passes the Matías Hernandez river, with so much sadness I must be honest and annotate that the river is highly contaminated with human waste. This part of the river is close to the shore so all type of debris accumulate here but also lots of shore or wad ...
How does MicroNutrient Support Services work?
Here is a document that was created to help you understand and explain about MicroNutrient Support. Micro Nutrient Support is NOT part of QSciences Corporate… They are an Independent 3rd Party company that has an agreement with the Q to help individuals in transitioning off of Psych meds. THEY ONLY ...
PDOPD-19
Skimpy Interference Cork and Two-Handed Fat Mr. Kaphemphis had only recently joined the cast of the cooking show, but already he was proving his worth. When Nancy was unable to plug the turkey balloon, it was Mr. Kaphemphis who stepped in, using one of the corks the Barren Valley Company had provide ...
Клиодинамика российских войн
Автор antonrumata несколько месяцев назад в посте Россия всегда обороняется! Это шутка? высмеивал некоторых наивных "поцреотов", которые уверены что Россия в своей истории вела только лишь оборонительные, "справедливые" войны, а так же то что она почти всегда побеждала в них. Я думаю, утверждения ав ...
