ANKARA: France’s foreign minister Monday urged a diplomatic solution to the conflict in the Middle East. Jean-Noel Barrot took up a visit to Jerusalem to mark the first anniversary of the conflict, and told a news conference that France was ‘unswervingly committed to Israel’s security.’ Barrot added that he told
ISTANBUL: The Turkish benchmark stock index closed Monday at 9,031.64 points, down 0.85% from the previous close.? The BIST 100 index started the week at 9,155.77 points, and lost 77.7 points at close compared to Friday.? The lowest value of the index for the day was 9,005.39, while its daily
ISTANBUL: The Turkish Treasury’s cash balance saw a deficit of 1.54 trillion Turkish liras ($47.8 billion) in the January-September period, the Treasury and Finance Ministry said on Monday. Last month, the Treasury’s cash revenues totaled 6.2 trillion Turkish liras ($191.8 billion). Its expenditures – including interest payments of 849.8 billion
ISTANBUL: Russia on Monday hosted a meeting of the foreign ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in the capital Moscow. A statement by the CIS said Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan’s top diplomats, as well as Turkmenistan’s ambassador to Moscow, exchanged views on current
GAZA CITY: The armed wing of the Palestinian Hamas resistance group on Monday said the Al-Aqsa Flood operation on Oct. 7 last year was a “preemptive strike” against Israel. “The strike of the (Palestinian) resistance (on Oct. 7) was preemptive as the (Israeli) occupation aggression reached a dangerous level,” said
ISTANBUL: A civil society organization has sent out a special edition of a newspaper, which was published in memory of the journalists killed by Israel in Gaza, to national and international media outlets from Istanbul. The Journalists’ Solidarity for Palestine, made up of journalists working in both Turkish and international
