A United States court found Turkish public lender Halkbank’s executive Hakan Atilla “guilty” on Jan. 3 for breaking U.S. sanctions on Iran. Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan’s spokesman İbrahim Kalın denounced the verdict as “scandalous” on Jan. 4.
For outsiders it may be too early to start talking about the Turkish presidential election scheduled for November 2019. But it is certainly not for Turks, despite the fact that no strong candidate has yet emerged to challenge President Tayyip Erdoğan.
A British spy in communication with influential Kurds in Iraq was reported to Ankara by Turkish field agents in Iraq. The spy was observed in local Kurdish dress near Hanekin and Halabja, talking in secret to Kurdish leaders about their next move in the region.
Does U.S. President Donald Trump think Iranians are fools with goldfish memories, who cannot remember the CIA-sponsored coup in their country in 1953?
President Tayyip Erdoğan said on the last day of 2017 that Turkey would “continue to take risks” in its foreign policy, especially in regional issues, in 2018.
Turkey’s political system radically shifted in 2017 through a referendum held in April. The decision to narrowly approve the change from a parliamentary system to a presidential system was the most important political turn of the year in the country.
A credit agreement between Turkey and Russia over the procurement of the S-400 air defense systems is coming into effect. Four batteries of the missiles, for $2.5 billion, are expected to be delivered to Turkey by 2020.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan’s Africa tour, which covered Sudan, Chad and Tunisia, took place right after a successful move in the United Nations, in which he played an important role by motivating the Islamic Cooperation Organization (OIC) against the United States’ recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
It is possible you might also be fed up with journalists and columnists, who keep telling you about the person of the year and the event of the year on the last days of every year.
