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Erdogan Launches Election Campaign with Pledge to Slash Türkiye Inflation

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan launched his re-election campaign on Tuesday with a party pledge to slash inflation to single digits and boost growth, as he seeks to extend his two decades in power in a May 14 vote. Erdogan is facing the biggest political challenge since his AK Party…

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Erdogan launches election campaign with pledge to slash Turkey inflation

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan launched his re-election campaign on Tuesday with a party pledge to slash inflation to single digits and boost growth, as he seeks to extend his two decades in power in a May 14 vote.

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Turkey aims to deliver gas from its own finds to homes in May

Turkey will start delivering gas from its offshore finds to households in May in a move that is projected to meet their needs for 35 years, Energy Minister Fatih Donmez said.

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Factbox-In Middle East, once improbable ententes set new tone

Adversaries across the Middle East have been taking steps to mend relations strained by years of tension and conflict, a trend most recently demonstrated in an agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia to reestablish diplomatic ties.

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World reaction to Israeli attack at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque

Israeli forces stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City, firing stun grenades and attacking Palestinians.

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Finland's NATO membership doubles alliance's border with Russia in major blow to Vladimir Putin

Finland's membership into the world's largest military alliance has dealt a major blow to Vladimir Putin, with NATO's border with Russia expanding by 1,340km.

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Factbox-Key players in Turkey's election campaign

President Tayyip Erdogan will put his two-decade rule on the line on May 14 when he faces opposition challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu in Turkey's landmark elections, which surveys suggest will be tight.

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Breakaway candidate could give Erdogan a lifeline in tight Turkey election

A second-time presidential candidate who lost out to Tayyip Erdogan in a 2018 vote could push Turkey's May election to a second round, potentially boosting the president's prospects of winning, according to analysts and polls.

Reuters

After Finland joins NATO, why is Turkey making Sweden wait?

Sweden's path to NATO membership remains blocked by Turkey and Hungary as neighbour Finland officially joined the 30-member alliance on Tuesday after its application was ratified in record time.

Reuters

Turkish Inflation Dips to 50%

Turkish annual consumer price inflation dropped to 50.51 percent in March, official data showed on Monday, slightly below forecast and easing ahead of landmark presidential and parliamentary elections on May 14. Inflation has been stoked by a currency crisis at end-2021 that pushed it to a 24-year peak above 85…

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Journalist Claude Guibal: Turkey's Erdogan 'is pragmatic and a chameleon'

It's now been 20 years since Recep Tayyip Erdogan rose to power in Turkey. Either way you look at it, he has undeniably transformed the country. For his supporters, he has turned Turkey into a regional powerhouse and rolled back secularism often associated with the West. But for critics, he…

France 24

To reconstruct Turkey, rebuild its democracy

The devastating earthquakes that killed more than 50,000 people in Turkey (and at least 7,000 in northern Syria) in February have exposed deep-rooted problems in the run-up to potentially epochal presidential and parliamentary elections on May 14. Turkey, it is now clear, needs more than a change of government; it…

Bangkok Post

Istanbul residents living in fear of post-quake building collapses

The mayor of Istanbul, Turkey's largest city, is warning of a race against time after February's deadly earthquakes highlighted deficiencies in the country's construction industry, with thousands of buildings collapsing.

Radio France Internationale

Türkiye Becomes Last NATO Nation to Ratify Finland Membership

Türkiye on Thursday became the final NATO nation to ratify Finland's membership of the US-led defense alliance in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Lawmakers unanimously backed the Nordic country's accession two weeks after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan publicly blessed the bid. NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg welcomed the ratification,…

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Two bullets fired at building of Turkish opposition party

The building of a Turkish opposition party in Istanbul was hit by two bullets overnight, its leader said on Friday, in what she described as an attempt to scare party members ahead of landmark presidential and parliamentary elections next month.

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Why is Sweden left behind in the Nordic NATO bid?

Turkey becomes the final member to ratify Finland’s application to join the bloc as Sweden’s path remains unclear.

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Finland to join Nato as hold-out Turkey approves membership bid

Helsinki entering the alliance will provide a major presence on Russia’s borders and more tools to defend Baltic states formerly under the Kremlin’s dominion

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Russian Forces' Role Declines in Syria, 90 Months After their Arrival

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) published the results of its monitoring of the activity of Russian forces, with the completion of their 90 months of involvement in the Syrian crisis. The first month of the eighth year of the Russian intervention in Syria witnessed several developments within the…

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Erdogan Warns of Repeated Talks about Possible Destructive Quake in Istanbul

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned that repeated talks of a potential destructive earthquake in Istanbul are spreading fear among the city’s residents. Erdogan spoke during his interview with several Turkish TV channels Wednesday evening about the challenges that faced the government in convincing Istanbul residents living in houses…

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Türkiye's parliament ratifies Finland's bid to join NATO

Türkiye's parliament ratifies Finland's application to join NATO, lifting the last hurdle in the way of the Nordic country's long-delayed accession into the Western military alliance.

France 24

Turkey's parliament ratifies Finland's application to join NATO

Turkey’s parliament on Thursday ratified Finland’s application to join NATO, lifting the last hurdle in the way of the Nordic country’s long-delayed accession into the Western military alliance.

Reuters

Turkish parliament ratifies Finland's NATO accession as Sweden kept waiting

Turkey's parliament approved a bill on Thursday to allow Finland to join NATO, clearing the way for the country to become part of the Western defence alliance as war rages in Ukraine.

Reuters

Factbox-Steps in Finnish, Swedish path to NATO membership

Finland looks set to join NATO soon, with Turkey's parliament voting to ratify Helsinki's membership bid even as it keeps Sweden's application on hold.

Reuters

Erdogan says Putin may visit Turkey in April for power plant inauguration

Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin may visit Turkey on April 27 for the inauguration of the country's first nuclear power reactor built by Russia's state nuclear energy company Rosatom.

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Moscow to Host Syria, Türkiye, Iran, Russia Meeting

The deputy foreign ministers of Syria, Türkiye, Iran and Russia will meet in April in Moscow, Turkish and Iranian officials said on Tuesday, building on contacts between Ankara and Damascus after years of hostilities during the Syrian war. Encouraged by President Bashar al-Assad's ally Russia, Syrian and Turkish officials held…

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