Eurasia

U.S.-based multinational alternative investment company National Standard Finance (NSF) will connect Turkey to a $2 trillion funding network that is set to bring in more foreign direct investment and help boost the economy, CEO Russell A. Duke has told Anadolu Agency.

Ankara will revoke the citizenship of Turks living abroad who do not show up for interrogation when subpoenaed.

This is the regulation introduced by three new decrees adopted by the government within the framework of the state of emergency in the country after the unsuccessful coup attempt on July 15, 2016.

Kyrgyz citizen Iakhe Mashrapov, who, according to Turkish media, might have been involved in the attack against the night club in Istanbul, has stated that he has nothing to do with the attack, reported RIA Novosti, cited by focus agency.

Earlier, Turkish media reported that the 28-year old Mashrapov is suspected of the attack. A photo of Mashrapov even appeared in social media.

Confidence in Turkey's retail trade and construction sectors recorded a slight advance in December while the services sector slipped, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) announced on Dec. 26.        

The individual acquisition of arms is rising in Turkey, with the number of registered and unregistered personal guns up tenfold in the past decade. 

Most of the weapons are unlicensed, according to a report published by daily Cumhuriyet on Dec. 25. The daily also said the reason for the move to acquire arms is the lack of "feeling of security in Turkey." 

Turkey's property sales soared to 132,655 units in November with a 25.1 percent increase compared to the same month of 2015, but the declining trend in sales to foreigners continued, data from the Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜİK) showed on Dec. 23. 

Over 3 million Russian tourists are expected to visit Turkey in 2017, with the tourism sector already experiencing some relief after the normalization of ties between the two countries, according to a leading tourism representative. 

President Recep Erdoğan spoke the truth when he said recently that Turkey is a European country. This may appear odd to those who predicate their outlook on religious factors. However, the geo-political geography that a country belongs to has to be considered from a much broader perspective.

Turkey's Energy Ministry is set to reassess its choice to ditch winter time, which has increased the country's time difference with Europe amid a series of complaints from across Turkey about the darkness in the mornings.

Turkey holds at least 81 journalists, fueling global high of 259.

Turkey's unprecedented crackdown on media brought the total number of jailed journalists worldwide to the highest number since the Committee to Protect Journalists began taking an annual census in 1990.