An Istanbul court on Wednesday ordered the release of Amnesty International’s Turkey chair who spent more than a year in jail over alleged links to the 2016 failed coup, the rights group said. First detained in June 2017, Taner Kilic should be released in the next hours, Amnesty’s Turkey researcher ...
Turkey has increased tariffs on several United States-origin products. In a presidential decree published in the Official Gazette on Aug. 15, Ankara said it was imposing extra tariffs on imports of products, including rice, tobacco products, vehicles, alcohol, coal and cosmetics. The decree, signed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, doubled ...