Turkey

24 April 2022; MEMO: Turkish air space has been closed to military and civilian planes carrying troops from Russia to Syria after consultation with Moscow, Turkey's state broadcaster TRT Haber cited Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu as saying on Saturday.

Reuters reported that NATO member Turkey has good relations with both Russia and Ukraine and has sought to mediate in the war between them.

24 April 2022; MEMO: Turkey is currently facing one of the worst property crises in its history after a number of economic causes have resulted in the doubling of housing prices in the country, data by Turkey's Central Bank has revealed.

ISTANBUL, Apr 23 (NNN-ANADOLU) – At least 45 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have been killed, during Turkey’s new ground and air cross-border operation in northern Iraq, said Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, yesterday.

The operation also killed three Turkish soldiers, added Erdogan.

The “destruction of caves and other critical targets” in the region is still underway, the president noted, hoping that the operation will be “successfully completed with minimum loss.”

ANKARA, Apr 22 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Turkey’s Foreign Ministry, yesterday summoned the charge d’affaires of the Iraqi embassy, to defend Turkey’s fresh cross-border operation in northern Iraq.

The ministry expressed its “discomfort over the baseless allegations” by the Iraqi authorities against Turkey’s military operation, dubbed Claw-Lock, that targeted the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Tanju Bilgic, said in a statement.

21 April 2022; MEMO: Turkiye has sent two more trucks of humanitarian aid to the Crimean Tatars in Ukraine, authorities said Thursday, and Anadolu News Agency reports.

According to Turkiye's Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD), the trucks were sent to Lviv, a city near the border with Poland, in western Ukraine.

Under the coordination of AFAD, Turkiye has sent 82 trucks of humanitarian aid and a mobile food truck for the people of Ukraine, it said.

21 April 2022; MEMO: The leader of Turkiye's main opposition party said today that power had been cut at his home, after he refused to pay his bills for two months in protest at steep hikes in subsidised energy prices, Reuters reports.

A currency crisis late last year sent inflation soaring and prompted the government to raise prices of everything from gas and electricity to road tolls, alcohol, bus fares and petrol in January.

21 April 2022; MEMO: Some NATO members want the war in Ukraine to continue for Russia to get weaker, Turkiye's Foreign Minister said Wednesday, Anadolu News Agency reports.

According to the report, Turkiye's Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, said Turkiye did not think that the Russia-Ukraine war would last that long after the peace talks in Istanbul.

20 April 2022; MEMO: Turkiye suspends the export of butter and cream to meet increased food demand in the summer, a time of increased tourism, Anadolu News Agency reports.

According to the report, the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry suspended the export of butter and cream to avoid shortages.

20 April 2022; MEMO: Children made up 26.9 per cent of Turkiye's population in 2021, down from 27.2 per cent in 2019, official figures showed today.

There were 22.74 million children in Turkiye in 2021, of an overall population of 84.7 million, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) said.

"According to population projections, the proportion of child population was expected to be 26.6% in 2025, 25.6% in 2030, 23.3% in 2040, 20.4% in 2060 and 19% in 2080," it added.

ISTANBUL, April 19 (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he told his Israeli counterpart Isaac Herzog on Tuesday that he had been "very upset" by Palestinians injured or killed in the West Bank and Al-Aqsa Mosque during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

In a tweet, Erdogan said the two had discussed the recent events caused by "some radical Israeli groups and security forces" in a phone call that comes amid efforts to normalise ties between the two countries.