Turkey's government

Turkey's government ran a 6.6 billion-Turkish Lira ($2.4 billion) budget deficit in March, the country's finance minister said April 15.

The deficit was 200 million liras lower compared to the 6.8 billion-lira deficit recorded in March last year, Naci A?bal said.        

The Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) called on Turkish government on April 14 to step up efforts to halt the murder of Syrian journalists in the country, to bring those responsible to justice, and to take the necessary measures on the issue.

Turkey's government will submit a draft proposal to parliament to remove parliamentarians' immunity from prosecution as early as April 12, Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu said. 

Turkey's government owes the lifting of visas to Schengen Zone members to its people, Turkish EU Minister Volkan Bozk?r has said. 

"The AK Party [Justice and Development Party] government will ensure the lifting of the visa [requirement]. This is our debt to our people, and we really want to make this happen," he said March 24 in an interview with Anadolu Agency in Helsinki.

The international community has condemned a car bomb attack in Ankara that killed 28 people and wounded 61 others near the armed forces' headquarters, parliament and other government buildings. 

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the explosion in a statement issued by his spokesperson on Feb. 17 and extended his "heartfelt condolences" to the victims' families. 

Turkey's government will not send the country on an unpredictable adventure amid the continued shelling of Democratic Union Party (PYD) positions in northern Syria, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmu? said Feb. 16.

Turkey's government has decided to enact legal measures to ensure human trafficking is treated as a terror crime, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmu? said Feb. 1.

Turkey's government ran a 22.6 billion Turkish Liras ($7.4 billion) budget deficit last year, Turkey's finance minister announced in a press conference Jan. 15. 

The amount was 1.2 percent of the country's GDP, and less than 2 billion liras ($656 million) than was forecast for 2015, Naci A?bal said.

Turkey's government has revised its economic growth forecast upward and vowed reforms to cut stubbornly high inflation, which has been defined as "one of the most challenging problems in the economy now," and to raise productivity. 

Turkey's government is set to provide a defense at the European Court of Human Right (ECHR) over curfews in Southeast Anatolia, where security forces have been conducting operations against militants.