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  • Monday, 18 September, 2023
    Gönül Tol
    Autocracy not reform remains Erdoğan’s recipe for Turkey

    As the 100th anniversary of the republic approaches, the west should take care not to assist in the burial of democracy

    A middle-aged man in a suit stands at a poudium
  • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
    Central banks
    Erdoğan abandons cheap money to counter Turkey’s soaring inflation

    President vows to use ‘tight monetary policy’ in sharp about-turn

    Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
  • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
    Turkish economy
    Turkish spending boom fuels strong expansion of economy

    GDP growth of 3.8% beats forecasts on back of post-earthquake reconstruction and credit-fuelled consumption

    A shopper at a clothing store in Istanbul
  • Tuesday, 15 August, 2023
    Turkish politics
    Istanbul mayor announces re-election bid in challenge to Erdoğan

    Ekrem İmamoğlu seeks to win race seen as crucial signal of opposition’s ability to counter Turkish president

    Ekrem İmamoğlu
  • Wednesday, 2 August, 2023
    Turkish economy
    Runaway inflation fuels blistering rally in Turkey’s stock market

    Locals seek shield from rising prices in equities while president Erdogan’s pivot to ‘rational’ policymaking lures foreign buyers

    People shop at a fresh market in Istanbul, Turkey
  • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
    Turkey
    UAE and Turkey sign multibillion-dollar agreements

    Erdoğan seeks support for economy with trade and business deals and backing for earthquake reconstruction

    Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, left, and UAE leader Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan on Turkish president’s tour of Gulf state
  • Tuesday, 18 July, 2023
    Turkish economy
    Saudi Arabia agrees deal to buy Turkish drones

    President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan drums up business as he embarks on Gulf tour

    Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan pictured shaking hands with Saudi officials during a welcoming ceremony in Jeddah
  • Sunday, 16 July, 2023
    Turkish economy
    Turkey triples petrol taxes as Erdoğan tries to repair public finances

    Measure prompts concerns over higher inflation after increases in value added tax

    A driver puts petrol into their car
  • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
    Turkish politics
    Erdoğan looks west as Turkish economy stutters

    Backing Sweden’s Nato bid is part of Ankara’s effort to ease tensions and unblock trade

    Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Swedish prime minister Ulf Kristersson shake hands at Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg looks on
  • Tuesday, 11 July, 2023
    Europe Express
    Erdogan’s move to reheat EU accession is a challenge to Brussels Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: How the issue of migration can make or break European governments

    Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson shake hands next to NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg
  • Monday, 10 July, 2023
    Nato
    Erdoğan agrees to support Sweden’s Nato bid

    Stoltenberg says Turkey’s president will put accession to his parliament following meetings at military alliance summit

    Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, shakes hands with Swedish prime minister Ulf Kristersson, right, as Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg looks on
  • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
    Nato
    Turkish and Swedish leaders to meet next week in Nato membership push

    Ankara says Stockholm has taken positive steps but is still concerned about recent public protests in Scandinavian capital

    Jens Stoltenberg
  • Tuesday, 4 July, 2023
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Turkey and Egypt upgrade diplomatic ties as relations thaw

    Ambassadors appointed to each other’s capitals for first time in a decade after rupture over coup in Cairo

    Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, shaking hands at the football World Cup in Qatar last year
  • Monday, 3 July, 2023
    Turkish economy
    Turkey’s trade deficit falls 35% in sign of cooling economy

    Drop in imports last month reflects sharp devaluation in lira, which hit record low against dollar on Monday

    The port of Izmir in Turkey
  • Sunday, 2 July, 2023
    InterviewEkrem İmamoğlu
    Latest criminal case against Istanbul mayor is ‘baseless’, lawyer says

    Erdoğan administration accused of misusing law to discredit popular opposition politician

    Istanbul’s mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu
  • Sunday, 25 June, 2023
    Turkish economy
    Turkey unwinds measures designed to increase lira holdings

    Central bank calls move ‘first step’ towards a more conventional monetary policy

    People wait to exchange money in Istanbul
  • Friday, 23 June, 2023
    Turkish economy
    Investor scepticism remains after Turkey’s ‘baby step’ towards ending crisis

    Fund managers concerned President Erdoğan will not allow unorthodox policies to be fully unwound

    Prices are displayed in a clothes shop at Eminonu commercial area in Istanbul, Turkey
  • Friday, 23 June, 2023
    Europe Express
    Turkey calls an end to Erdoğan’s economic experiments Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter: the five-year trawl for an EU fish deal is about to end

    Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
  • Thursday, 22 June, 2023
    FT MagazineSimon Kuper
    Another five years with Turkey’s not-so-strong strongman

    Beyond the bravado, Erdoğan is an opportunist who prizes power above ideology

  • Friday, 16 June, 2023
    News in-depthTurkish economy
    Turkey expected to double rates to 17% as new finance team fights to fix economy

    Sharp increase in interest rates expected as new leadership seeks to pull $900bn economy away from brink

    A balloon seller in Istanbul
  • Friday, 9 June, 2023
    Turkish politics
    Erdoğan taps former Goldman banker to head Turkey’s central bank

    Hafize Gaye Erkan, the first woman to lead the institution, could raise interest rates to combat inflation

    Hafize Gaye Erkan
  • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
    Turkish lira
    Turkish lira slumps as new economic team starts ‘intentional devaluation’

    Currency undergoes biggest fall since late 2021 after finance minister’s pledge to restore ‘rational’ policies

    A cashier counts out Turkish lira banknotes on the counter of a foreign currency exchange store in Istanbul
  • Tuesday, 6 June, 2023
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Turkey’s economic fate is still in the president’s hands

    After a promising rejig, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan must loosen his grip on economic policy

    Recep Tayyip Erdoğan walks with his cabinet in Ankara. Turkey desperately needs to shift away from the president’s economically illiterate agenda
  • Sunday, 4 June, 2023
    Turkish economy
    Turkey’s new finance minister pledges return to ‘rational’ economic policy

    Mehmet Şimşek signals intention to move away from unorthodox strategy that has fuelled crisis

    Finance minister Mehmet Şimşek, left, shakes hands with his predecessor Nureddin Nebati at a handover ceremony in Ankara
  • Saturday, 3 June, 2023
    Turkey
    Erdoğan signals economic shift for Turkey as he revamps cabinet

    President brings back well-regarded finance minister a week after winning second-round of presidential poll

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