AKP LAWMAKERS PRESS MINISTER ŞİMŞEK FOR PENSION REFORM
During the AKP’s 33rd Consultation and Assessment meeting in Sapanca, lawmakers criticized Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek over soaring living costs and low retirement pensions.
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İŞBANK CEO WARNS OF DEEPENING CREDIT CRUNCH
Hakan Aran, the CEO of Turkey's largest private bank, İşBank, has warned that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face severe difficulties accessing credit, predicting a highly strained second half for 2026.
KAZAKH BILLIONAIRE SECURES REGULATORY APPROVAL TO BUY TURKISH BANK
International financial giant Freedom Holding Corp., founded by Kazakh billionaire Timur Turlov, has completed the regulatory approvals to acquire a majority stake in Turkish Bank A.Ş.
GERMAN AND KOREAN SURGE IN POPULARITY ACROSS TURKEY'S LANGUAGE SCHOOLS
Turkey's language learning landscape is undergoing a sharp transformation, with German and Korean emerging as the two most sought-after languages in the country, Sözcü reported.
RIFT INSIDE AKP SURFACES AS SOCIAL MEDIA FIGURE TARGETS PRO-GOVERNMENT MEDIA GROUP
A rift within the ruling AKP divulged to public view after Tamar Tanrıyar — a social media phenomenon, a Turkish-Armenian known mainly as the wife of a former celebrity journalist and the owner of a small television channel — released a video targeting pro-government Turkuvaz Media Group that owns Sabah newspaper and ATV television channel.
DENİZ / SEA
For a country surrounded by seas, Turkey has made remarkably turbulent use of the name Deniz. It means “sea,” of course. Calm, blue, generous, occasionally treacherous.
NİMET ÖZDEMİR: THE MP WHO NEVER WEARS OUT A PARTY BADGE
As the countdown to early or on-schedule elections picks up pace, transfers of lawmakers and mayors are happening at an astonishing pace. Among them, Istanbul MP Nimet Özdemir stands out. Özdemir won her parliamentary seat for the first time in 2023 — under the İYİ Party banner.
NATO ACCREDITATION BAN BACKLASH REACHES BRUSSELS AS MEMBER STATES RAISE ALARM
After the reactions of Turkish journalists and media organizations over the refusal to grant them credentials to cover the NATO Summit in Ankara, some member states conveyed their concerns at NATO headquarters.
İYİ CHAIR REJECTS KILIÇDAROĞLU AS POLITICAL COUNTERPART
İYİ Party Chair Müsavat Dervişoğlu refused to recognize court-appointed CHP Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu as a legitimate interlocutor.
STANDOFF WITH SWORDS DRAWN ON CHP FRONT
The rift between court-appointed CHP Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu and ousted Chair Özgür Özel deepened this week, even as the two crossed paths at a funeral — while notably failing to appear together at an Ashura gathering the same day.
CHP'S TWO CAMPS TRADE MOVES AS WEDGE DEEPENS
The standoff between court-appointed CHP Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu and ousted Chair Özgür Özel's teams continued outside parliament.
ÖZEL AT A CROSSROADS: THE CHALLENGES AHEAD FOR A NEW PARTY
No sooner had Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu settled into the party leadership — declaring 'first purification, then a congress' in the immediate wake of the absolute nullity ruling — than he did exactly what everyone expected: signed off on expulsions.