Tayyip Erdogan

22 countries have banded together to condemn China's oppression of its Muslim minority, in what activists called an " unprecedented move." But Muslim countries were conspicuously absent from the statement as the Islamic world continues to turn a blind eye. …

TURKEYS ECONOMY had just begun to show signs of recovery. High interest rates, a measure of calm following local elections earlier this year and attempts to rebuild a strained relationship with America had allowed the lira, which fell by 12% against the dolla…

Riyadh (AFP) - Diplomatic fallout over journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder appears to be slowing the flow of high-rolling Saudis to Turkey, as calls grow within the oil-rich kingdom to boycott the holiday magnet. The two Sunni Muslim powers have a longstandi…

Rachel Bitecofer, a political scientist at Christopher Newport University's Judy Ford Wason Center for Public Policy has developed a US election prediction model that performed very well in the 2018 midterms; she has since refined it based on the results of t…

Turkish prosecutors have ordered the arrest of more than 200 serving military personnel and several civilians over suspected links to a network blamed by Ankara for an attempted coup three years ago. Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Tuesday that…

Hours after unexpectedly forcing out the central banks governor, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made clear that he expects both the successor and the rest of the establishment to toe the governments line on monetary policy. The decision to can Murat …

Turkey’s Erdogan reportedly fired his central bank chief for refusing to slash interest rates

Of course our central bank is independent, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan said last year. But the central bank cant take this independence and set aside the signals given by the president. Erdogan sent a strong signal this weekend, firing central ban…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (previously) was dealt a stinging rebuke in March, when voters in Istanbul overthrew his AK Party, which had run the city for 25 years; Erdogan had previously said "whoever wins Istanbul, wins Turkey."> Erdogan's 15+…

In blaming his central bank for sabotaging his designs, Mr. Erdogan finds himself in powerful company. President Trump has intensified his attacks on his own central bank governor, Jerome H. Powell, asserting that high interest rates have made America less gr…