Wednesday’s Annual General Meeting of the Turkish Industry and Business Association (TÜSİAD), convened in Istanbul, ushered in a new era as the body elected Simone Kaslowski its new President. The Turkish businessman of Italian origin has been a board member of TÜSİAD since 2013, serving as its V...
Residents of an eight-storey apartment block that collapsed in Istanbul last week were “killed”after an amnesty on illegal constructions was pushed through Parliament ahead of next month’s local elections, an opposition MP has claimed. Garo Paylan, a Diyarbakır MP for the People’s Democratic Part...
Consumer prices continue to push inflation upwards in Turkey. According to figures released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) earlier this week, year-on-year inflation rose by 1.06 to 20.35% in January. It marked a slight increase from December 2018, when inflation stood at 20.3%. There...
A five-year-old girl has been pulled alive from the rubble of an eight-storey building which collapsed in the Kartal district of the Asian side of Istanbul, claiming the lives of at least three people. Azra Havva Tekgöz was rescued on Thursday morning, almost 20 hours after the building collapsed...
Two lucky people have the chance to step back in time and enjoy the magical music of Barış Manço. The rock star passed away in 1999, and on Thursday 31 January, singer Djanan Turan and a group of virtuoso musicians will pay tribute by performing his greatest hits at London’s Jazz Café on the twentie...
Demand for a balloon ride above the spectacular lunar-like landscape of Cappadocia has soared over the past 12 months. Figures released by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation shows 537,500 tourists took a hot air balloon tour over the popular central Turkey destination – an increase of 63% com...
Greece has failed to implement a human rights ruling against the closure of Turkish associations, 10 years after it was handed down. The country was slammed by the Committee of Ministers, the Council of Europe’s statutory decision-making body, over a case relating to the “violations of the right to...
A senior politician in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) was in mourning this week after a close relative was killed by a pensioner driving the wrong way down a major road in East London. Tourism and Environment Minister Fikri Ataoğlu was left grief-stricken after receiving news that Ru...
From June 2019, food manufacturers will no longer be able to use advertisements and promotions for junk food and confectionary to target children in Turkey. The Trade Ministry made the announcement in Turkey’s Official Gazette yesterday, Friday 28 December. Part of its agenda to promote healthier...
The southern Turkish town of Kahramanmaraş has marked the 40th anniversary of violence that saw more than 100 people lose their lives. Dozens of civilians were killed and hundreds of others injured during the events of late December 1978, known as the “Maraş Massacre”. The killings were said t...
