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Turkey to expand Central Bank’s operational range

ANKARA - The operational range of the Turkish Central Bank will be expanded through strengthening policy synchronization and unclogging congestion in structural canals in price stability and by combatting inflation, the nation’s treasury and finance minister said on Thursday.“A central bank more effective than ever will be among our policy’s main targets in the new era,” Berat Albayrak told Anadolu Agency.

Albayrak underlined that it is improper to speculate on the bank’s independence and decision-making mechanisms.“In the new era we will support the Central Bank carrying out a more predictable, straightforward, and decisive monetary policy,” said Albayrak.He said the amount and variety of foreign resources will be boosted while the ministry cooperates with international financial actors and stakeholders.

ISTANBUL - A Turkish court on Thursday sentenced 84 defendants to aggravated life imprisonment in a major case concerning the 2016 defeated coup, centered around deadly confrontations on one of Istanbul’s major bridges.The night of the coup bid by the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), 34 people were martyred on

the July 15 Martyrs’ Bridge -- then called the Bosphorus Bridge -- including prominent advertiser Erol Olcok and his son Abdullah Tayyip Olcok.All but two of the martyrs were civilians; the remaining two were police officers.A total of 133 suspects remanded in custody were at Thursday’s hearing at Istanbul’s 25th...

KAYSERI - Four executives of a major Turkish holding company linked to the July 15 defeated coup were convicted on Thursday in central Kayseri province, judicial sources told Anadolu Agency.

Former executives of Boydak Holding -- Memduh Boydak, Haci Boydak, Sukru Boydak and Mustafa Boydak -- were sentenced to jail terms ranging from seven and half years to 18 years...

By Safvan Allahverdi

WASHINGTON - American experts on Wednesday warned of the threat posed by the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) in the country.“I believe that the Gulen movement in the U.S. presents a unique and unusual security threat,” said Mark Hall, producer, screenwriter and

director of the documentary “Killing Ed”, which probed the financial practices of FETO-linked charter schools in the U.S.Speaking at the panel “July 15 Coup attempt: Two Years Later” organized by the Global Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., Hall said FETO threatens the U.S. mainly by bringing in unqualified...

By Michael Hernandez

WASHINGTON - UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres lashed out at the international community over the

ongoing tragedies befalling Myanmar’s minority Muslim Rohingya people.In a scathing op-ed published in the Washington Post, Guterres recounted the horrors the Rohingya are being

subjected to, saying nothing could have prepared him for the “bone-chilling accounts” he heard during a trip last week to Bangladesh, where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya...

By Esat Firat

JERUSALEM - Turkish national Ebru Ozkan was released Wednesday pending trial after an Israeli military court decided to grant her conditional release.Ozkan’s lawyer, Omar Khamaysa, said she had left HaSharon prison near Natanya city accompanied by officials of Turkey’s embassy in Tel Aviv.Ozkan, 27, appeared at a hearing earlier in the day at the Ofer

military court in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.On Tuesday, the court ruled to release Ozkan on bail set at 15,000 Israeli shekels (roughly $4,110). Prosecutors lodged an objection, but it was dismissed by the court.Ozkan is forbidden to leave the country and her passport has been confiscated by Israeli police.Ankara, meanwhile, has registered its objection to Ozkan’s arrest, vowing to take appropriate steps in response.Ozkan was arrested on June 11 at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion...

84 get aggravated life terms over FETO coup bid

Executives get jail terms for FETO terror links

US experts raise concern over FETO threat

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Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak says effective Central Bank is among main policy targets of new era

Israeli court releases Turkish national pending trial

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