News archive of March 2024

Is Erdogan’s invite to the White House a diplomatic win?

Alan Makovsky, veteran Turkey analyst and senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, joins Thanos Davelis to examine how Turkish President Erdogan finally snagged an invite to the White House, and look into what message this move sends about the Biden administration's approach to Turkey in the wake of the Sweden NATO saga.

Large-scale theft

The decision to make gas retailers responsible for outlets caught selling adulterated fuel is a good start in the effort to crack down on these rackets.

A slew of measures have been announced to this end now and then, but they need to be implemented, at long last, so as to curb the rackets' activities and the enormous cost of those activities for taxpayers. 

Which world would you like to live in?

The three-day parliamentary debate on a motion of no confidence submitted by opposition parties over developments in the Tempe train crash inquiry ended on Thursday. We were a little puzzled, we mostly confirmed what we knew and very often wondered about the "truth" that was repeatedly professed by party leaders in their speeches.

‘Brave’ rise in minimum wage

The new minimum salary to be introduced from next Monday, April 1, will amount to 830 euros gross, increased by 6.4%, the government announced on Friday. It will concern at least 560,000 workers already employed in the private sector.

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