ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish home sales fell 18% year-on-year in February to 80,031 houses, with sales to foreigners dropping 27%, data from the Turkish Statistical Institute showed on Wednesday. Russians…
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s lira weakened to a fresh record low of 18.9620 against the dollar on Thursday, as investors weigh the economic impact of massive earthquakes that hit the…
By Can Sezer and Jonathan Spicer KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan could have relied on strong voter backing from Cigdemtepe and other villages and towns across southeast…
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s industrial production index is expected to have expanded 2.45% year-on-year in January, a Reuters poll showed on Tuesday, returning to growth after two months of contraction.…
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish factory activity expanded very slightly in February as massive earthquakes impacted the sector as some firms suspended production resulting in a slowdown in output and orders,…
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s foreign trade deficit widened 38.4% year-on-year to $14.24 billion in January, official data showed on Monday, with imports surging 20.7% and exports up 10.3%. The Turkish…
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s economic confidence index fell 0.3% month-on-month in February to 99.1 points, following massive earthquakes that devastated the country’s southern region, data from the Turkish Statistical Institute…
KIRIKHAN, Turkey (Reuters) – A woman died in hospital on Saturday a day after she was pulled out of the rubble of a collapsed building in southern Turkey, where she…
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s consumer confidence index rose 4.6% to 79.1 points in January, official data showed on Monday, increasing again after a month with marked improvements in confidence for…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said ahead of a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington on Wednesday that he expects the United States…
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The Turkish trade deficit widened 138.4% from the previous year to $110.19 billion in 2022, the Trade Ministry said on Monday, with exports rising 12.9% to $254.2…
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish factory activity contracted for the 10th month running in December but showed some signs of improvement from previous months as output and new orders fell more…
ANKARA (Reuters) – The Turkish central bank has included non-bank financial companies in securities maintenance regulations as part of its “liraization strategy” which will be introduced in the New Year.…
By Huseyin Hayatsever and Ali Kucukgocmen ANKARA (Reuters) – A Turkish court ordered the arrest of a journalist in the country’s southeast for allegedly spreading “disinformation”, his lawyer said on…
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s BDDK banking watchdog has set the foreign currency net position to standard capital ratio for banks at a maximum 5% according to a regulation published in…
By Rowena Edwards and Julia Payne LONDON/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Azerbaijan’s state oil firm SOCAR has paused purchases of Russian crude oil for its Turkish refinery, industry sources said, in a…
By Huseyin Hayatsever ANKARA (Reuters) – Finland’s defence minister Antti Kaikkonen said the sooner Turkey ratifies its NATO membership bid the better and it would consider granting arms export permits…
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s industrial production index is expected to have barely expanded in October, a Reuters poll showed on Wednesday, with some economists expecting a contraction as a slowdown…
By Ceyda Caglayan ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The Turkish lira’s sudden stability after a roller-coaster year, despite annual inflation near 85%, is hurting exporters’ competitiveness and some risk losing markets, a…
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) – Turkish drones are targeting key oil installations run by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northeast Syria, three local sources said, in air…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States’ top general spoke with his Turkish counterpart on Wednesday, the U.S. military said, as Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey’s air operations against…
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s central bank sent a letter to local lenders on Monday, warning them against conducting forex transactions with foreign banks during “off hours” and offering deposits with…
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s central bank sent a letter to local lenders on Monday, warning them against conducting forex transactions with foreign banks during “off hours” and offering deposits with…
By Mert Ozkan and Jonathan Spicer ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s main opposition group said on Friday it would ask the top court to throw out new media legislation that would…
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s central bank is expected to cut its policy rate by 100 basis points to 11% next week, a Reuters poll showed on Friday, after President Tayyip…