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The Central Bank’s main goal this year is to increase the effectiveness of its monetary policy and rein in double-digit inflation, Governor Murat Çetinkaya told Reuters in an interview on Jan. 25.

Istanbul’s Beşiktaş mayor Murat Hazinedar and two municipal council members were dismissed from their duties on Jan. 4 by the Turkish Interior Ministry.

After a hiatus of eight years, the opera ‘Murat IV,’ which recounts the life of the Ottoman sultan Murat IV, will open in the capital

BBC Turkish correspondent Hatice Kamer was detained in the Şirvan district of the southeastern province of Siirt on Nov. 26, becoming the latest journalist to be apprehended in Turkey.

Kamer went to Şirvan following the collapse of a copper mine that killed at least 11 miners and left five others missing, in order to meet with the relatives of the victims.

Market anxiety over the new governor of the Central Bank was somewhat dissipated by the eventual naming of Murat Çetinkaya and his first decision, according to the Bank's former chair Yavuz CaneviThe appointment of Murat Çetinkaya as the new governor of the Central Bank and his first decision to cut the interest rate by 0.50 percent was welcomed by the markets, according to Yavuz Canevi, who se

Turkey ran a current account deficit of $133 million in October 2015, down from $2.3 billion in the same month of the previous year, according to a report the Turkish Central Bank released on Dec. 10.

"The current account deficit was at $133 million, indicating a narrowing of $2.176 billion from October of the previous year, the report said.

Ottoman heroism is a regular fixture in Turkish cinema, rising from its ashes every couple of decades or so. And what better time to come back to life than when Turkey?s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is unabashedly advocating neo-Ottomanism for a ?new Turkey?? The recent release ?Fatih?in Fedaisi Kara Murat?