Aydın Ağaoğlu

Tickets for the concert that the metal band Megadeth will perform in Istanbul on June 12 after eight years were sold out within minutes. Again, tickets for another famous band, Scorpions, to be organized on May 23, were also sold out. Now tickets for the two concerts have been put on the black market on various domestic and foreign websites at nearly 10 times the original price.

Though many citizens paid a fee for the passport in the last months of 2022 and got an appointment in 2023 due to the density, civil registry offices have demanded to reflect the raised fee differences.

Migros, one of the largest supermarkets with nearly 3,000 outlets across Türkiye, has joined a hard discount retailer in freezing prices on stable products.

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Şok, one of Türkiye's largest hard discount retailers, will freeze prices on 1,000 items, including staple products such as rice, flour, vegetable oil, sugar and tear, until the end of January.

If other supermarkets follow suit, such a move is likely to have a positive impact on the inflation outlook, according to a consumers' association.