News archive of November 2014

A decrease in Turkey's military spending has been accompanied by a rise in domestic security expenditures, according to an expert group.

So at the end of the day journalism has not died in Turkey.

If it had died as some of our colleagues have been saying lately out of pessimism, there wouldn’t be any need felt to issue the publication ban to the news about the commission’s corruption investigation for the four former ministers.

Moscow and Ankara will likely focus on finding new ways to enhance their already-tight relationship during Russian president's high-level Ankara visit, putting their foreign policy differences aside Turkish and Russian presidents, along with a number of ministers will meet today to seek ways to further increase economic and energy cooperation, as well as to multiply trade volume despite disagr

Exclusion of worker representatives from minimum wage setting process as well as the government's overlooking the problem...

The trial of Ali Ä°smail Korkmaz, the university student who fell into a coma after getting beaten by plainclothes police officers during the Gezi protests and died 38 days later, continued last week. Across the Atlantic, a Missouri grand jury decided not to indict a white police officer over the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager in August.

By the time this article is published, Pope Francis will have left Turkey after having spent a busy weekend both as a head of state and as the head of the “Christian Church of the West,” one of two Greek Orthodox bishops, who briefed us on the pope’s visit to Turkey, explained to us.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has elevated himself to the presidency, but is trying to remain the leader of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) with domestic and foreign visits, statements targeting political opponents, as well as controversial statements going to the extent of Muslims discovering the Americas and the "Cuban mosque."

Nobody admits to doing so openly, but some have recently considered rethinking whether Samuel Huntington’s infamous prophecy of the “Clash of Civilizations” is actually correct after the rise of Islamism, and especially the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

The quick depreciation of the Russian ruble against the U.S. dollar might affect Turkish tourism, warned Yusuf Hacısalihoğlu, head of the Association of Mediterranean Tourism and Hoteliers of Turkey (AKTOB), during a conference in the Turkish resort of Antalya on Nov. 28.

Gastronomy is becoming the main motive of tourism. The hospitality and catering industry is growing quickly in Turkey; one proof is that the worldwide event Sirha is now celebrating its second year in Istanbul. The event took place last week between Nov.