A jointly penned letter by France and Germany’s foreign ministers, Jean Yves le Drian and Heiko Maas, for the Washington Post rightly suggests that much-anticipated trans-Atlantic unity can be reached between Europe and the United States under President-elect Joe Biden’s administration. The ministers underlined that a new deal between the two sides of the Atlantic is needed to adapt their partnership to global upheavals.
Turkey enters a new era during which it will prioritize reforming the economy and the judicial system, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan vowed on Nov. 11 in his first assessment following a change in the economic management. He meant to say that the short-term and medium-term measures will be initiated by the government in a bid to address the long-standing problems in the economy and justice. In his statement on Nov. 14, he added democracy to the list of areas in which the government will start a brand new mobilization.
The past week has marked some significant developments and changes concerning Turkish politics and the economy. Two years after the formation of the current Justice and Development Party (AKP) government under the new governance system, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has appointed a new economy management following the surprise resignation of his Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak.
An agreement that ends the six-week conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia to the benefit of the former had been pretty certain since the clashes began in late September.
As was expected, the democratic contender Joe Biden is elected as the 46th president of the United States, dashing incumbent President Donald Trump’s hopes for another four years at the White House.
It’s not very often that Turkey’s top three labor unions join forces due to their different ideological stances. The Confederation of Turkish Trade Unions (Türk-İş) is a mainstream labor organization with the most members, while the Hak-Is Trade Union (Hak-İş) represents the conservative part of the Turkish working class and the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey (DİSK) represents the leftist part.
By this column goes to press early on Nov. 4, we will probably get the first results of the 2020 U.S. presidential elections, in which Donald Trump is trying to save his office from Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
Turkey and Greece do not only share the beauties of the Aegean Sea, its culture and history, but also its geographical risks. Both countries host many active fault lines and dearly suffer when earthquakes jolt, as seen at times in history. The most recent one happened on Oct. 30 when a 6.6 magnitude tremor hit İzmir, Turkey’s third largest city, and Greece’s Samos Island.
The governmental People’s Alliance, composed of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), is following a three-legged policy against the oppositional Nation Alliance by the Republican People’s Party (CHP), the İYİ (Good Party), the Felicity Party and the Democrat Party. The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) is not a formal member of the alliance; it just acts as an indirect supporter of the Nation Alliance during election times.
