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Turkey

  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    Turkish economy
    Turkey’s central bank raises interest rate to 46%

    Unexpected move comes after US tariffs and arrest of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s main political rival

    Recep Tayyip Erdoğan points upward with his right hand as he speaks
  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    Ekrem İmamoğlu
    Why Turkey’s democratic future matters for the world

    My arrest in the government’s attempt to crush dissent shows how important the stability of my country is

    Supporters of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) attend a rally to protest against the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    InterviewÖzgür Özel
    How Turkey’s opposition plans to take on Erdoğan

    Republican People’s Party head Özgür Özel outlines strategy after arrest of star campaigner triggered mass protests

    Özgür Özel, head of the Republican People’s party
  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
    Syrian crisis
    Israel and Turkey begin talks to avoid conflict in Syria

    Meeting aims to prevent ‘undesirable incidents’ as both countries expand military presence inside Arab state

    Turkish troops oversee the return of Syrian refugees
  • Tuesday, 8 April, 2025
    Turkey sees opportunity in tariff turmoil, finance minister says

    Mehmet Şimşek argues cheaper oil can help rebuild foreign reserves and ease inflation after sell-off last month

    Turkish Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek
  • Tuesday, 8 April, 2025
    The best books of the week
    Children of Radium — Joe Dunthorne’s family memoir balances trust and doubt

    The novelist and poet interrogates his great-grandfather’s life story, taking in Nazi Germany, 1930s Turkey and the world of chemical weapons

    A high narrow wall of stone towers over four people on the path below. At the base of the memorial are two sculpted figures
  • Saturday, 5 April, 2025
    Elif Shafak
    Why Turkey’s youth-led protests offer hope

    A new generation is finding brilliant and creative ways to object to the arrest of mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu

  • Wednesday, 2 April, 2025
    Turkish students call on consumers to ‘buy nothing’ following crackdown

    Boycott campaign aims to increase pressure on President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan after arrest of opposition leader

    A woman walks by shuttered restaurants in Istanbul amid the opposition’s calls for a mass economic boycott following the arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu
  • Wednesday, 2 April, 2025
    Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan
    Markets are reaching for the Turkish risk premium

    Technocrats can contain short-term financial panic but only democratic integrity will sustain investor confidence

    A protestor wears a gas mask as other hold Turkish flags during a rally in support of Ekrem Imamoglu
  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
    China gives IPOs the green light

    Change in stance by Beijing follows rebound in domestic stocks

  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    Turkish economy
    Foreign investors wary of Turkey despite $25bn lira intervention

    Traders fear Erdoğan could fire central bank governor and finance minister who have helped stabilise country’s markets

    A street vendor pushes his wheelbarrow as he passes by people sitting on the shore of Golden Horn in Istanbul
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    Turkey deports BBC journalist over Erdoğan protest coverage

    British broadcaster says veteran correspondent Mark Lowen was held by police for 17 hours before being forced to leave

    Mark Lowen
  • Tuesday, 25 March, 2025
    Turkey seeks to calm investors after market turmoil

    Protesters rally for seventh night after Istanbul mayor was jailed on corruption charges

    A protester faces a line of riot police during a demonstration in Istanbul on Monday
  • Tuesday, 25 March, 2025
    Gönül Tol
    Europe can’t repeat its mistakes in Turkey

    As Ankara’s future hangs in the balance, EU leaders must fill the void left by Washington and defend democracy

    Protestors hold red smoke flares during a rally in support of Istanbul’s arrested mayor at Istanbul’s city hall
  • Tuesday, 25 March, 2025
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
    Cheap oil is not the Trump administration’s top energy priority Premium content

    Plus politics versus markets in Turkey

    A worker of the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA looks at the Iranian-flagged oil tanker Fortune as it docks at the El Palito refinery in Puerto Cabello in the northern state of Carabobo, Venezuela
  • Monday, 24 March, 2025
    News in-depthTurkish politics
    Turkish protesters rise up against Erdoğan

    Demonstrators warn arrest of Ekrem İmamoğlu, the president’s main rival, risks transforming the country into an autocracy

    The protester is dressed in a dervish outfit, with a gas mask on. The police are firing the spray straight into his face. Crowds are in the background
  • Sunday, 23 March, 2025
    Turkey formally arrests Erdoğan rival in escalation of political crackdown

    More than 600 people detained as country sees largest opposition protests in more than a decade

    A woman wearing a T-shirt with the face of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu waves a flag during a protest in Istanbul on Saturday
  • Saturday, 22 March, 2025
    Turkish politics
    Turkey detains hundreds of protesters as demonstrations over mayor’s arrest intensify

    Detention of Ekrem İmamoğlu has set off economic and political turmoil

    Supporters of Istanbul metropolitan Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu take part in a demonstration outside Istanbul municipality
  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    Turkish politics
    Tens of thousands protest in Turkey against arrest of Erdoğan rival

    Detention of Istanbul’s popular mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu galvanises opposition and leads to stock market plunge

    People light flares as they protest against the arrest of Istanbul’s mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, in Istanbul on Friday
  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    Turkey spends record $12bn defending lira after Erdoğan rival’s arrest

    Central bank’s currency intervention came as officials ‘lost control’ of market following Ekrem İmamoğlu’s detention

    A protester waves a Turkish flag and chants slogans in Istanbul
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    Turkish politics
    Turkey detains 37 in escalating crackdown on opposition to Erdoğan

    Hundreds more sought by authorities as they move to stifle dissent over arrest of popular Istanbul mayor

    Protesters gather in front of the municipality headquarters in Istanbul, waving Turkish flags and holding signs
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    News in-depthTurkish politics
    Erdoğan’s move against main rival plunges Turkey into crisis

    Politicians and investors say the arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu marks a dangerous turning point

    Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, left,  and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, right
  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The alarming detention of the Turkish president’s rival

    Move against Istanbul mayor brings fears of authoritarian slide by Erdoğan

    Supporters of the Mayor of Istanbul demonstrate in front of the Turkish police barricade against his detention over a corruption probe in Istanbul
  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    LexTurkish economy
    Turkish assets take a confidence hit Premium content

    Crackdown on political opposition will shake international investors’ faith in Ankara

    A supporter holds a poster of Ekrem İmamoğlu in front of a Turkish police barricade during a demonstration in Istanbul
  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    Turkish politics
    Turkish police detain Erdoğan’s main political rival

    Stocks fall as Istanbul’s mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, a key challenger to president, held

    Ekrem İmamoğlu speaks at a rally with a large Turkish flag in the background
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