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Turkish Banks Sell AT1 Bonds as Buffer Against Volatile Lira

Source:Bloomberg Date:27Mar2024

Yapi Ve Kredi Bankasi AS is set to become the third lender from Turkey to raise AT1 capital this month after offering a US dollar-denominated bond on Tuesday, with initial price talk of around

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Soner Cagaptay: Istanbul Election Will Shape Erdogan’s Policy Trajectory

Source:Washington Institute Date:23Mar2024

If the president’s faction takes the city back from the opposition on March 31, he may feel comfortable enough to focus on more positive legacy-building steps, but a loss could see him double

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THE DESIRE OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN TURKEY TO LIVE ABROAD: AN ANALYSIS OF RECENT SURVEYS ON YOUTH IN TURKEY

Source:Istanbul Policy Center Date:23Mar2024

What Do the Surveys on Young People in Turkey Tell Us about Their Desire to Live Abroad? Recent surveys demonstrate that there is a strong desire to live abroad among young people in Turkey.

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Sinem Adar: Turkey in MENA, MENA in Turkey

Source:Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Date:20Mar2024

Turkey’s popularity in the MENA region has increased since the AKP’s rise to power in 2002. People-to-people contacts, economic progress, and a perceived European lifestyle have contributed to

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Azerbaijan is racing to rebuild in recaptured Nagorno-Karabakh

Source:The Economist Date:02Mar2024

President Ilham Aliyev has pledged that 140,000 Azeris will return to the region by 2026. He is earmarking $2.4bn for reconstruction in 2024, more than a tenth of the country’s annual budget.

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Are Iran and Turkey on a collision course over West Azerbaijan?

Source:Middle East Institute Date:02Mar2024

Over the centuries, Iran and Turkey have engaged in an ebbing and flowing, but continual, rivalry for regional influence and supremacy. That thorny relationship persists to this day, in some

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Turkish stocks soar in world-leading rally as ‘tech mania’ grips market

Source:Financial Times Date:29Feb2024

The “global tech mania” — led by US chipmaker Nvidia — has spilled into Turkey’s markets and has been a key driver of this year’s strong performance for the Borsa Istanbul, said Tunç Yıldırım,

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Mustafa Akyol: The West Is Losing Muslim Liberals

Source:CATO institute Date:24Feb2024

Any close observer of the region can see this. Among them is Fawaz Gerges, a renowned expert on Middle East politics, who warned in December: “I have never seen the region as implosive, as

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FATF: Jurisdictions under Increased Monitoring – 23 February 2024 (Turkey remarks below)

Source:FATF Date:23Feb2024

In October 2021, Türkiye made high-level political commitment to work with the FATF to strengthen the effectiveness of its AML/CFT regime. At its February 2024 Plenary, the FATF made the initial

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Book Review: Apparatchiks and Ideologues in Islamist Turkey—The Intellectual Order of Islamism and Populism

Source:Middle East forum Date:23Feb2024

Gürpınar has produced an interesting intellectual history of the late Ottoman Empire and modern Turkish state. In fact, Apparatchiks and Ideologues is a page-turner. It takes a connoisseur of

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