BreakingENI and TotalEnergies Approve Investment in Kronos Field in Eastern Mediterranean
Admiral Gürdeniz warns of 'siphon effect': southern gas production may drain Turkish reserves across the boundary line.
Yusuf Al-Saadi
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BreakingDeutsche Bank: Turkey Is the World's Most Expensive Country for iPhone 17 Pro
Report by Jim Reid and Galina Pozdnyakova: The same phone costs $2,592 in Turkey versus $1,181 in the US — more than twice the US price.
Mehmet Yılmaz
Sunday Long Read: Water, Wages and Weather — the Non-Financial Numbers That Move the Peg
The dirham sits at 3.6725 and the riyal at 3.7500, but the Kingdom's week produced three data points that traders should read as macro signals.
Karim Al-Rashidi
Erdoğan Opens Transfer Season from the Opposition with 'Turkey Consensus' Call
Erdoğan personally pinned badges on politicians who have crossed over from opposition parties at AKP's 25th anniversary ceremony — a move party insiders read as a signal that more transfers will follow when Parliament reconvenes.
Mehmet Yılmaz
Flooding on Peloponnese: Vehicles swept into sea, villagers moved to sports halls
In the village of Karavostasi in Mani prefecture, parked automobiles were carried into the sea while Greece's Health Minister Georgiadis announced that a woman in Itilo was injured by lightning strike.
Mehmet Yılmaz
Fenerbahçe General Secretary Uslu to TFF: 'The league cannot continue like this'
Fenerbahçe, beaten 2-1 by Gençlerbirliği, brought the rejected postponement request and two disputed penalty decisions to the TFF's agenda during Champions League week.
Mehmet Yılmaz
İzmir Cumhuriyet Başsavcılığı'nın aradığı suç örgütü elebaşı Serkan Kurtuluş tutuklandı
33 suçtan kırmızı bültenle aranan Kurtuluş, Arjantin'den iade edildi; İzmir 3. Ağır Ceza Mahkemesi'nde SEGBİS ile ilk ifadesi alındı.
Mehmet Yılmaz
Forest fire in Marmaris: Response underway with 217 personnel, 7 aircraft and 16 helicopters
The Governor of Muğla announced that landing craft belonging to the Ministry of National Defense have been deployed to combat the fire on a coastal strip where ground access is impossible.
Yusuf Al-Saadi
Serkan Kurtuluş, wanted on 33 charges, brought to Istanbul and remanded by Izmir court
The organized crime leader Kurtuluş, arrested in Argentina in 2020, was remanded in custody by Izmir 3rd Heavy Penal Court following his statement via SEGBİS.
Mehmet Yılmaz
Turkey's Cluster Munitions Question and a Peg Board That Ends the Week Flat
A geopolitical file reopens in Ankara, Moscow demands answers, and the Gulf's two anchors close Saturday exactly where they opened Monday.
Karim Al-Rashidi
Saturday Mothers Call for Justice for Nadir Nayci at Their 1,116th Week Vigil
The case of 65-year-old Nadir Nayci, who disappeared in custody in Cizre in 1993, has been brought back to the agenda 33 years later with the support of the Human Rights Association.
Mehmet Yılmaz
Agriculture Minister Yumaklı: This Season Will Break All-Time Record with 140 Million Tons
Minister Yumaklı, who rode a combine harvester in Eflani, Karabük, announced that 93 percent of the barley and wheat harvest has been completed.
Mehmet Yılmaz
War weighs on Turkey's tourism: Antalya hotel prices fall 5%, Muğla 8%
Middle East uncertainty is pushing tourists to delay bookings, while Istanbul bucks the trend with a 5% price increase.
Yusuf Al-Saadi
Eskişehir Chief Public Prosecutor's Office: 90 suspects arrested in 'modem fraud', 116 million TL seized
90 people who posed as representatives of internet companies defrauded 801 citizens by selling non-functional modems and collected 116 million lira.
Mehmet Yılmaz
When the Nightclub Becomes the Counter
Fragrance brands are staging their most intimate pitch in darkened rooms — and the modest fashion consumer is already ahead of this game.
Yasmine Khalil
Hormuz as American territory: the sentence, and the week that produced it
A president says the strait will be annexed 'soon.' Walk back through the wires and you find a war logic already installed — and a gas pump quietly primed to explain it.
Sherif Al-Mahdi
Ankara Chief Prosecutor's Office Seizes Shredded Kuriş Network Documents from Ümraniye Address
Fragmented documents were recovered at an address in Ümraniye; 49 suspects had been detained in the Ankara-based operation.
Mehmet Yılmaz
Uzbekneftegaz Turns to Beijing for Jet A-1 — a Landlocked Refiner's Confession
Tashkent's move to lock in long-term jet fuel from CNAF and Sinopec exposes a domestic distillate gap that a decade of upstream talk was meant to close.
Sergei Petrov
هيونداي تبدأ إنتاج IONIQ 3 الكهربائي في إزميت باستثمار 250 مليون يورو
أول سيارة كهربائية بالكامل تُصنعها شركة دولية في تركيا، بطاقة 30 ألف وحدة سنوياً في مرحلتها الأولى.
Yusuf Al-Saadi
Sweeping Promotions in Turkish Gendarmerie Leadership Take Effect August 30
Presidential decree elevates 7 generals and 18 colonels in rank, and reassigns 78 officers to various posts.
Yusuf Al-Saadi
Cairo's 45 Percent Promise and the Fine Print in the Bid Round
Egypt tells investors it wants renewables by 2028 and hydrocarbons by yesterday. Both budgets are real. That is the story.
Natasha Volkov
Day 33 at Güvenpark: Mine-Blast Veteran Unable to Secure Meeting with Ministry of National Defence
Wounded veterans and families of the fallen — including Ataner Ersoy, who lost his leg in Şırnak — have been waiting for a resolution at Ankara's Güvenpark for 33 days.
Mehmet Yılmaz
Diesel tax hike of 10.80 TL in November: Triple excise blow to farmers during harvest season
By presidential decree, excise taxes on diesel will increase incrementally between September and November; farmers will pay an additional 10.80 TL per liter in total, including VAT, at the height of tractor season.
Mehmet Yılmaz
Arjantin'den kaçan suç örgütü elebaşı Serkan Kurtuluş saat 22:50'de İstanbul'a indirildi
Kırmızı bültenle 6 yıl aranan Kurtuluş, Brezilya aktarmalı THY uçağıyla İstanbul Havalimanı'na getirildi; işlemleri Havalimanı Emniyet Şube Müdürlüğü'nde başladı.
Mehmet Yılmaz
Istanbul-centered operation targets bot network selling Schengen appointments: 37 arrested
The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has secured the arrest of 37 people in an investigation into those who used bot software to access consulate systems and sell appointments.
Mehmet Yılmaz
AFAD Pressures Hatay Defne Container Residents to Evacuate Within 15 Days
Earthquake survivors in Cengiz Topel container city say they faced warnings of 'forced removal by police'; with a monthly 20,000 TL pension, they say they cannot afford rent.
Mehmet Yılmaz
İYİ Partili Karakaş AKP'ye geçti; 5 gün önceki Öcalan paylaşımını sildi
Aydın Milletvekili Ömer Karakaş, AKP'nin 25. yıl programında rozetini Erdoğan'ın takmasıyla geçişi resmileştirdi; daha önce Öcalan'a 'bebek katili' dediği sabitlenmiş paylaşım hesabından kaldırıldı.
Mehmet Yılmaz
Egypt's 45% pledge, read from the well backwards
A 2028 renewables target lands on the same desk as a fresh licensing round for fourteen oil and gas blocks. The order of the announcements matters.
Sherif Al-Mahdi
Second Train Derailment in England Within Two Days, 20 Passengers Injured Yesterday
Greater Anglia train derails at Wickford station in Essex with no injuries, following Southern Railway incident that left 20 people wounded
Yusuf Al-Saadi
Yazgan: 'I Will Request My Parliamentary Immunity Be Lifted and Demand to Be Tried'
Speaking to NTV, CHP deputy Yazgan claimed a drug was slipped into his drink; the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office investigation is ongoing.
Mehmet Yılmaz