Turkey

11 October 2022; MEMO: Turkiye's unemployment rate fell to 9.6 per cent in August, according to data released by TurkStat, Anadolu News Agency reports.

According to the report, Turkiye's unemployment rate dropped the lowest since March 2014.

The number of unemployed people aged 15 and over dropped by 100,000 month-on-month to 3.3 million as of August, report says.

In 2022, inflation in Turkiye has climbed above 83 per cent – a 24-year-high.

ANKARA, Oct 10 (NNN-XINHUA) – Turkish National Intelligence Organisation (MIT), yesterday, killed a senior member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and his bodyguard, in northern Iraq, the semi-official Anadolu Agency reported.

Okkes Deveri, codenamed Kendal Pirsus, was responsible for the health committee of the PKK, the news agency reported, quoting anonymous Turkish security officials.

Deveri and his bodyguard, Kayhan Kartal, were killed in a cross-border operation in Gara.

7 October 2022; MEMO: Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said that many countries are willing to meet his country's needs, if the US does not meet Ankara's need for F-16 fighters.

In response to journalists' questions, he said, "If the United States does not meet our need for F-16 fighters, many countries are willing to do so," according to Anadolu news agency.

ISTANBUL, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan spoke by phone with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin about improving bilateral ties and he repeated Ankara's willingness to do its part to peacefully resolve the war in Ukraine, Erdogan's office said on Friday.

The latest developments in Ukraine, which Russia invaded earlier this year, were also discussed in the call, according to Turkey's Directorate of Communications.

ANKARA, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- Türkiye was ready to contribute to a peaceful resolution of the Ukraine crisis in the interests of all, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in a phone call on Friday.

In the phone call, Erdogan and Putin exchanged views on enhancing Türkiye-Russia relations as well as the latest developments in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, according to a statement released by the Turkish presidency.

5 October 2022; MEMO: Turkiye's President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, criticised the main opposition party CHP's proposal for the headscarf by reminding the past highlighting to change the Constitution to completely solve the problem.

Accusing CHP's leader, Kılıcdaroglu, of 'abuse', Erdogan stated that the headscarf was no longer a problem, and that no one had a problem in public or schools.

Erdogan said, "If CHP is sincere, let's amend the Constitution to completely solve the problem."

4 October 2022; MEMO: Saudi journalist's wife, Hanan El Khashoggi, calls Turkiye to provide more evidence on the murder of her husband.

Jamal Khashoggi's wife wrote an article for the Guardian newspaper, on the anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi's murder.

ANKARA, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- The objection by Greece and the European Union (EU) to new economic and maritime deals between Türkiye and Libya is of "no significance or value" to Ankara, the Turkish foreign ministry said on Tuesday.

3 October 2022; MEMO: Israel approved the appointment yesterday of its new ambassador to Turkiye. A tweet from Prime Minister Yair Lapid confirmed the appointment of Irit Lillian and said that "This is another important step in repairing relations with Turkiye that we have been working on for the past year."

3 October 2022; MEMO: Turkiye's inflation climbed to a new 24-year high of more than 83 per cent for September, the country's official body for statistics, TUIK, said Monday, Reuters reports.

According to the report, consumer prices in September grew by 3.08 per cent, and annually by 83.45 per cent.

The domestic producer price index was up 4.78 per cent from the previous month, and up a whopping 151.5 per cent year on year, report added.