Turkey

While many countries are seeing rising consumer prices, critics blame Turkey's problems on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's economic policies. The Turkish ...

Consumer prices were up nearly 3% from April, the institute reported. The sharpest increases in annual prices were in the transportation sector, at 107.6%, followed by food and non-alcoholic drinks prices at 91.6%, according to the statistical institute's data. ANKARA, Turkey — (AP) — Annual inflation in Turkey hit 73.5% in May, the highest rate since 1998, according to official data released Friday as a cost-of-living crisis in the country deepens.

Turkey's official inflation rate hit a 23-year high last month as President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's unorthodox strategy for managing the country's $790bn ...

Turkish inflation has been in double digits for much of the past half-decade as authorities prioritized economic growth and exports. President Recep Tayyip ...

Turkey is planning to restrict purchases by domestic investors of new lira bonds sold by multinational lenders, the latest effort to curb short selling of ...

Food and transportation are among the hardest-hit sectors. TURKEY-ECONOMY-CURRENCY-DOLLARS-FEATURE. Turkey's annual ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is particularly opposed to the measure, saying in late May: “Those who try to impose on us a link between the benchmark rate and inflation are either illiterates or traitors." Among the most affected sectors are transportation, where prices rose 107.6 percent year on year, and food, where costs increased by 91.6 percent, according to data from the Turkish Statistical Institute released Friday. It's Turkey's highest level of inflation since 1998, a year before the country adopted a comprehensive IMF-backed disinflation program.

The consumer price index (CPI) rose 73.5% in the 12 months through May, up from nearly 70% in April, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) said. The ...

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Turkey will henceforth be known as Türkiye at the United Nations, following a formal request from Ankara. President Erdogan has long pushed for using the ...

The name of the bird, turkey, does indeed hail from the country Turkey since guinea fowl – first imported to Europe via Turkey – were known as turkey-hens. State broadcaster TRT, which made the change as soon as it was announced last year, said that in addition to the bird connection, one of the meanings offered in the Cambridge English Dictionary was "something that fails badly" or "a stupid or silly person". Over the past few years, the country has sought to change the branding on its products from "made in Turkey" to "made in Türkiye". The latter will feature on all exported products.

A man stands with a national flag as people visit the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, in Ankara on May 19.

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The day before, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavasoglu had tweeted a photo of himself signing the letter, addressed to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

Over the past few years, the country has sought to change the branding on its products from "made in Turkey" to "made in Türkiye". "With the letter I sent to the UN Secretary General today, we are registering our country's name in foreign languages at the UN as 'Türkiye,'" he wrote, including an umlaut over the "u". Turkey has told the United Nations that, at the behest of its president, it wishes from now on to be called Türkiye in all languages, the UN has said.

Turkey has told the United Nations that, at the behest of its president, it wishes from now on to be called 'Türkiye' in all languages, the United Nations.

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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu sent a letter to the United Nations on Wednesday formally requesting that his country be referred to as “Türkiye."

In December, Erdogan ordered the use of “Türkiye” to better represent Turkish culture and values. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu sent a letter to the United Nations on Wednesday formally requesting that his country be referred to as “Türkiye,” the state-run news agency reported. It was not clear whether the name, with a letter that doesn’t exist in the English alphabet, will catch on widely abroad.

The Turkish government is asking that the country be called by its Turkish name, a change which the United Nations has now adopted.

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