An Istanbul court on Saturday remanded in custody ahead of trial nine staff from the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper, in an intensifying crackdown a day after the leaders of the country’s main pro-Kurdish party were also jailed. There had been growing international alarm over the use of a state of emergency ...
Turkey’s embattled lira on Friday plunged to new historic lows in value against the US dollar as markets took fright at a new crackdown against its main pro-Kurdish political party. The lira is now trading at values substantially lower than in the wake of the July 15 coup aimed at ...
