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▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Elvan Kivilcim | Ghassan Adnan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

In Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar, Demand for Gold and Dollars SoarsPeople are pouring money into assets that they see as a safer bet than the Turkish lira, which has declined by more than 80% in the past five years.

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☆ Turkey’s Erdogan Defies Odds to Win Presidential Election
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-28 | by ( Jared Malsin | Elvan Kivilcim | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Erdogan and Challenger Appear Headed for Runoff Election in Turkey
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-14 | by ( Jared Malsin | Elvan Kivilcim | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan will likely face opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu in the second round of the presidential election on May 28. Photo Composite: Diana ChanISTANBUL—Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his main challenger said they were both prepared to accept a runoff election later this month with neither candidate claiming an outright victory in a vote that marked the most severe political challenge to the Turkish leader’s two decades in power. Early results appeared to show neither Mr. Erdogan or his top challenger, opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu , reached the 50% threshold required to avoid a runoff, which would take place on May 28.

☆ Having Established Turkey on the World Stage, Erdogan Faces Risky Vote at Home
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-14 | by ( Jared Malsin | Elvan Kivilcim | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

People in Turkey are voting in the tightest election in years, as the country recovers from a devastating earthquake in the midst of an economic crisis. WSJ’s Jared Malsin explains why the results could reverberate beyond Turkey. Photo: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty ImagesISTANBUL—Turkish voters go to the polls on Sunday in one of the most crucial elections in the country’s history—a vote that could bring to an end the long rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and have far-reaching geopolitical consequences for the Middle East, Ukraine and NATO. Mr. Erdogan has towered over Turkish politics for two decades, tightening his grip over the country and eroding democratic institutions at home, while also raising the country’s profile on the international stage.

Turkish presidential candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu leads the country’s largest opposition party. ISTANBUL—Turkey’s top opposition candidate for president, Kemal Kilicdaroglu , resting in a hotel suite after addressing throngs of screaming supporters, said he would steer Turkey closer to NATO and the West if he wins Sunday’s election. If Mr. Kilicdaroglu prevails, he says, he would breathe new life into Turkey’s democratic checks and balances after years in which incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan jailed political opponents and reshaped the state to become the most powerful Turkish leader in a century.

MERSIN, Turkey—Muzeyyen Bahap plans to travel nearly 200 miles to vote in Turkey’s coming presidential election on May 14. She is one of the millions of Turkish voters who were displaced by a massive earthquake that struck swaths of the country and could play a decisive role in an election that could mark the end of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ’s 20 years in power.

ANTAKYA, Turkey—The Turkish government’s difficulties managing the aftermath of last month’s earthquakes have presented an awkward situation for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan : Some of his biggest rivals are helping to fill the gaps in the state’s response. Civil-society groups, political parties and opposition-run municipal governments have become surrogate governments in many of the worst-hit areas, handing out food and clothing, setting up makeshift medical centers, collecting garbage, fighting fires and repairing roads in cities that so far have received little aid from the central government.

☆ Erdogan’s Political Opposition Fractures Ahead of Turkey Election
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Jared Malsin | Elvan Kivilcim | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

ADANA, Turkey—An influential Turkish political party dropped out of an alliance opposing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan , handing the leader a potential boost ahead of what could be his toughest election campaign in his 20 years in power. The decision by Meral Aksener , the leader of the center-right Iyi party, takes the second-largest member out of a six-party coalition determined to unseat the Turkish president in an election expected in May.

☆ Latest Earthquake in Turkey Leaves at Least Six Dead, Hundreds Injured
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( Jared Malsin | Elvan Kivilcim | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

ISTANBUL—The death toll rose to six from another strong earthquake that rattled parts of Turkey and Syria on Monday night, just two weeks after a pair of quakes unleashed the worst destruction in the region in decades. The new quake of magnitude 6.4 was followed by another tremor of 5.8 magnitude, centered on Turkey’s southern Hatay province, wedged between the Mediterranean Sea and the border with Syria.

GAZIANTEP, Turkey—A strong earthquake and its aftershocks struck southern Turkey and Syria on Monday, causing buildings to collapse and killing at least three people, Turkish officials said, in a sign of the region’s vulnerability after it was devastated earlier this month by its worst seismic event in decades. The new 6.4 magnitude earthquake shook the southern Turkish province of Hatay just after 8 p.m. local time, according to Turkey’s disaster management agency AFAD. It was followed by several tremors, including one of magnitude 5.8, in the same region minutes later. More than 300 people were treated for injuries across Turkey and Syria, according to officials in both countries.

KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkey—The earthquakes that devastated Turkey and Syria last week are heaping new stresses on the Turkish economy, posing a challenge for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who is facing an election this year. The quakes cut a path of destruction through a core industrial region in Turkey around the cities of Kahramanmaras and Gaziantep, home to factories exporting everything from clothing for Western brands, jewelry, pots and pans, and iron. It also devastated some of the country’s agricultural infrastructure producing fruit, vegetables, grains and seeds. Now, the region is littered with damaged and destroyed industrial facilities.

GAZIANTEP, Turkey—Before Monday’s earthquakes, Gaziantep was a busy and prosperous border city, a haven for refugees fleeing conflict in neighboring Syria. In good weather, crowds strolled its green parks, shopped in a suburban-style mall and hung out in a plaza at the foot of an ancient citadel. Today, Gaziantep is a ghost town. With thousands of buildings destroyed or damaged and no electricity or running water, many residents fled. Those who remain are sleeping in cars, schools or the street, despite freezing winter weather.

BELEN, Turkey—As the sun went down Tuesday over Girne Street, dozens of people, their hands and arms limned with ghostly gray dust, silently combed the wreckage of flattened apartment blocks. Ismail Parlak and his wife dug through the rubble looking for Mr. Parlak’s mother, entombed, they said, somewhere under six stories of collapsed concrete and contorted metal.

ISTANBUL—Snow, freezing temperatures and blocked roads hindered efforts to rescue survivors trapped under collapsed buildings across southern Turkey and northern Syria after two powerful earthquakes killed more than 5,000 people and destroyed thousands of homes. Aid workers from around the world poured into Turkey on Tuesday to support local rescue efforts after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake on Monday morning was followed by a 7.5-magnitude quake in the afternoon.

☆ Powerful Earthquakes Strike Turkey and Syria, Killing More Than 1,400 People
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-06 | by ( Jared Malsin | Elvan Kivilcim | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

ISTANBUL—A second powerful earthquake battered Turkey and northern Syria on Monday just hours after a strong temblor shook the region, killing more than 1,400 people and destroying thousands of buildings, Turkish and Syrian authorities said. A 7.8-magnitude quake felt across four countries on Monday morning was followed by a series of aftershocks and then a 7.5-magnitude quake in the afternoon that authorities said was separate from the first. The quakes were Turkey’s worst seismic event in decades, rocking an area around the city of Gaziantep that is home to millions of Turkish citizens, displaced Syrians and refugees.

☆ Ukraine War Makes Unexpected Winner of Turkey’s Erdogan
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-05 | by ( Jared Malsin | Elvan Kivilcim | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

ANKARA, Turkey—Russia’s invasion of Ukraine one year ago unleashed global economic turmoil. In Turkey, it has proved an unexpected windfall for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan . The Turkish leader has managed to make himself indispensable to all sides of the conflict, a position that is reaping economic rewards that have helped ease the Turkish state’s financial troubles. The turnaround has bolstered his position ahead of a national election that could cement his position as Turkey’s most powerful ruler in nearly a century.

☆ Turkey Blames Kurdish Militant Group for Istanbul Bombing
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Jared Malsin | Elvan Kivilcim | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

People mourn the victims of an explosion on a busy shopping street in Istanbul. ISTANBUL—Turkey blamed Kurdish militants from neighboring Syria for a bombing over the weekend in the heart of Istanbul that killed six people and wounded 81 others, as authorities arrested a woman they accused of carrying out the attack. Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said the attack was perpetrated by members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, a militant group, who crossed into Turkey from Syria.

☆ Deadly Explosion Hits Busy Istanbul Pedestrian Street
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-13 | by ( Jared Malsin | Elvan Kivilcim | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Ambulances at the scene after the explosion hit Istanbul’s Istiklal street. ISTANBUL—A bomb blast ripped through a busy pedestrian street in the heart of Istanbul on Sunday afternoon, killing at least six people and wounding 53 others, Turkey’s president saidThe blast occurred on Istiklal street, a vast canyon of a street lined with restaurants and shops on Istanbul’s European side. Sirens could be heard wailing in the aftermath of the explosion.

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