Up to 100,000 Austrians with dual Turkish citizenship could be stripped of their Austrian citizenship as courts in the country look into violations of the country’s dual nationality laws.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has responded to the diplomatic spat engulfing Turkey-U.S. relations by pledging a national boycott of U.S.-made electronic goods.
The U.S. Embassy in Ankara has denied reports that American pastor Andrew Brunson will be released from house arrest and allowed to return back to the United States.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan intends to go down in history as the most consequential leader of his nation since Ataturk. He is reaching that goal by unraveling Ataturk’s secular reforms and turning Turkey into an Islamist nation.
The Single Supervisory Mechanism, the European Central Bank’s financial watchdog, has become concerned about the knock-on effects the fall of the Turkish lira will have on some of Turkey’s European lenders after it experienced one of the biggest one-day falls of any free-floating currency in 20 years.
The Turkish lira took a nosedive on Friday as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan decisively lost the first battle in his “economic war” against the United States.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with his Turkish counterpart, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, on Friday and left the meeting agreeing to “resolve” the unspecified “issues” between them, paramount among them the sanctions Washington imposed on Ankara this week.
Turkey’s currency, the lira, plunged to a record low on Wednesday and continued to fall Thursday following the imposition of sanctions by the United States on two Turkish officials for their roles in the detention of American pastor Andrew Brunson.
Turkish ruling and minority party politicians responded with outrage Thursday to the U.S. Treasury’s decision to sanction the nation’s Justice and Interior ministers in response to the continued detention of American pastor Andrew Brunson.
President Donald Trump directed the U.S. Department of Treasury to sanction two Turkish officials on Wednesday for their part in the “unfair and unjust detention” of Pastor Andrew Brunson by the government of Turkey.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Turkey’s Minister of Justice Abdulhamit Gul and Minister of Interior Suleyman Soylu on Wednesday over their leading roles in the arrest and detention of American pastor Andrew Brunson.
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert reiterated to reporters during a regular briefing Tuesday that, as Vice President Mike Pence had noted a week ago, Turkey faces “the very real risk of sanctions” if it does not free American pastor Andrew Brunson, arrested on dubious charges of aiding Marxist and Islamist terrorist groups.
A Turkish court on Tuesday ruled against American pastor Andrew Brunson’s appeal to be released from house arrest.
A study has found that a growing number of ethnic Turks in Germany no longer see both Germany and Turkey as their homeland, but identify solely as Turks.
Thousands of people in Germany with migrant backgrounds are sharing stories of everyday discrimination under the hashtag #MeTwo, inspired by football star Mesut Ozil’s resignation from Germany’s national team over racism.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned the U.S. nothing will force Ankara to “step back” after President Donald Trump threatened “significant sanctions” against Turkey if a jailed U.S. pastor is not released.
Israel on Friday confirmed U.S. media reports that President Donald Trump asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a July 14 phone call to release Ebru Özkan, a Turkish woman accused of Hamas ties, in exchange for Turkey’s release of imprisoned American Pastor Andrew Brunson, who has been detained on terror and espionage charge. Turkey had denied these reports.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in South Africa as a guest of the BRICS annual summit on Thursday, celebrated that his nation had tripled the number of its embassies in Africa under his rule.
Two members of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) said on Wednesday that the news that Turkish authorities have placed American pastor Andrew Brunson in house arrest is a good sign that his almost two-year detention from alleged terrorism charges could be coming to a close.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu responded swiftly on Thursday to the threat of sanctions from President Donald Trump unless pastor Andrew Brunson is released. “We will never tolerate threats from anybody,” Cavusoglu said on Twitter.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin during the annual BRICS summit in South Africa to discuss the ongoing conflict in Syria, he announced on Wednesday.
Turkish authorities announced on Wednesday that American Pastor Andrew Brunson, detained in 2016 for alleged ties to Islamist and Marxist terrorist groups, has been moved to house arrest to address health concerns.
Chinese Communist Party head Xi Jinping landed in South Africa Monday night for the third leg of his regional trip and spent Tuesday negotiating with President Cyril Ramaphosa, ultimately signing a million-dollar investment deal with his country.
Israel is the “most fascist, racist state” in the world, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday, adding that the “spirit of Hitler” finds a home amongst some of the Jewish state’s leadership.
A German football star of Turkish heritage has quit the national team and blamed “racism and disrespect” after he was criticized for posing for photos with the increasingly authoritarian president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the U.S. is working to secure the freedom of Pastor Andrew Brunson, who remains in a Turkish jail.
Turkey announced on Thursday the official end of the three-month “state of emergency” that began in July 2016.
The Central Bank of Venezuela has begun refining gold in Turkey in a bid to escape the pressure of international economic sanctions against the Maduro regime, the country’s mining minister announced on Wednesday.
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry responded Thursday to President Donald Trump’s characterization on Twitter of the arrest of American Pastor Andrew Brunson as a “total disgrace,” insisting that his prolonged detention is a “legal process” necessary for the country’s national security.
A Turkish court, to the dismay of U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, on Wednesday ruled against releasing Andrew Brunson, an American pastor imprisoned on terrorism and spying charges pending trial.
Turkish prosecutors opened an investigation against Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the head of the secularist opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), on Wednesday for tweeting a cartoon depicting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as several wild animals.
The government of Turkey has yet to lift a state of emergency in place since a failed coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in 2016 despite promising to do so last Monday. The nation’s justice minister promised this Monday that the state of emergency would lift “within a few days.”
Tens of thousands of people rallied in Istanbul on Sunday night to mark the second anniversary of the failed military coup in July 2016.
The Iranian government claimed Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin will “soon” head to Tehran to meet Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss the status of Syria’s civil war.
Adnan Oktar, an Islamic television host long accused of running a “sex cult” in Turkey, was arrested on Wednesday along with over one hundred of his supporters, many among them his scantily-clad female accomplices he calls “kittens.”
Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro may have found an unlikely savior for his economy: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who invited Maduro to his inauguration Monday and appears to have facilitated meetings with Turkish investors.
Anti-Trump comedian Kathy Griffin took to Twitter Monday to condemn President Donald Trump preemptively for what she described as an inevitable conclusion of the reelection of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey: that Trump “will drop to his knees and blow this dictator.”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced during his inaugural address Monday that Turkey is entering a “new era,” where the nation will take center stage in geopolitics and citizens are expected to submit to the will of the state for the greater good of Turkish identity.
Recently re-elected Turkish president Reccip Erdogan invited Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro to his inauguration as the two men currently hold talks in Istanbul.
