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YEARS Saturday Sunny 33°C WEATHER / ANKARA Saturday, September 16, 2017 Finance Minister Naci Agbal / Anadolu Agency Photo By Okan Ozer ‘No leader like Erdogan’ Turkey maintains strong growth Turkey says China to be important market in 2018 New agreement at Syria peace talks Anadolu Agency Photo MORE DETAILS MORE DETAILS MORE DETAILS Anadolu Agency Photo Mobile phone subscribers in Turkey reach 76.6 million Turkey runs $7.3B budget deficit during January-August World hunger rises with conflicts and climate change Economy>> Economy>> World>> MORE DETAILS By Aamir Latif KARACHI - Kemal Hussein, 40, who owns a small business in Pakistan’s commercial capital Karachi is worried about his relatives living in Myanmar. “We have lost all contact with them. We don’t know if they are dead or alive,” says an emotional Hussein, who has lost many relatives in Myanmar army’s raids in present-day Rakhine state in 1978, 1982, and 1998. He is one of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims -- often referred to as Burmese -- who have made Karachi their home for the last several years. Up to 4000,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar’s western Rakhine state into Bangladesh since Aug. 25, according to the UN. The refugees are fleeing a fresh security operation in which security forces and Buddhist mobs have killed men, women and children, looted homes and torched Rohingya villages. According to the Bangladesh government, around 3,000 Rohingya have been... By Fuat Kabakci CHENGDU - Turkey’s Culture Minister Numan Kurtulmus said Friday China will be an important market in the coming year. Kurtulmus said the year 2018 will be favorable as it has been declared as the “Turkey Tourism Year” in China. He was speaking to journalists from Anadolu Agency and TRT in Chengdu province of China, on the sidelines of a session of the UN World Tourism Organization. He added to mark the year various events will be held in Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu and other cities. Kurtulmus, who met... By Selen Temizer and Muhammed Shekh Yusuf ASTANA - A sixth round of Syrian peace talks in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana ended on Friday. The three guarantor states, as well as representatives of the Damascus regime and some opposition factions, met in Astana for a sixth round of talks aimed at ending the six-year conflict. The parties at the Syrian talks in Kazakhstan have agreed the boundaries of the final de- escalation zone in the northern province of Idlib, Turkish and Russian diplomatic officials said. Officials from Turkey, Russia and Iran have agreed... By Dilara Zengin and Tuba Sahin ANKARA - Turkey’s economy will continue to grow in the upcoming quarters of this year as leading indicators are strong, the country’s finance minister said on Friday. Speaking at Anadolu Agency’s Editors’ Desk in Ankara, Naci Agbal noted that Turkey’s growth rate will be higher in the third quarter of 2017 due to base affects compared to the same period of last year. Turkey’s economy grew 5.2 percent in the first quarter of this year and 5.1 percent in the second quarter, compared with the same periods of 2016, according to Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat). “The third quarter of 2016 coincides with the defeated coup attempt,” Agbal recalled. The finance minister stated that the acceleration in the growth rate will continue in the fourth quarter as well. “Leading indicators in production, investment, domestic and foreign demand are quite strong. Exports considerably support growth, along with pleasing developments in tourism,” Agbal said. Recalling credit rating agencies’ outlook for Turkish economy after the failed coup attempt, Agbal said agencies such as Standard and Poor’s and Fitch expected Turkey to grow by 2-3 percent in 2017. “However, everybody starts to upgrade Turkey’s growth rate for 2017. International institutions mention rates like 4.7 or 5.3 percent,” Agbal noted. “There is confidence in the Turkish economy in the market and it continues increasingly,” he added. Agbal also said the budget deficit in August stood at 874 million Turkish liras (nearly $254.5 million) while the primary surplus was 4.6 billion liras ($1.34 billion). Agbal said there was a significant increase in investment... Rohingya refugees in Pakistan say ‘Turkey and Erdogan not only voiced concern for us but acted for us’ MORE DETAILS Rohingya crisis, as well as other humanitarian crises, teach us that these are not religious issues, but human rights issues By Dr. Senem Cevik CALIFORNIA -Myanmar is stirring with a wave of violence under the governance of Aung San Suu Kyi who won the country’s first democratic elections in 2016. The de facto leader of Myanmar and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who was confined to 15 years of house arrest for her fight for democracy, is now being accused of covering up the crimes of the Myanmar military perpetrated in the western Rakhine state. Despite the initial hope in her leadership, little has changed in Myanmar where the Rohingya minority is still denied citizenship and is persecuted on a daily basis. The situation is so dire that even the UN describes Rohingya as... The plight of the Rohingya: A massive wake-up call “ Analysis Finance Minister Naci Agbal tells Anadolu Agency Q3 growth rate will be higher Turkish, Russian, Iranian observers will be deployed at control, checkpoints to be established in Idlib de-escalation zone
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World hunger rises with conflicts and climate change
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By Aamir Latif
KARACHI - Kemal Hussein, 40, who owns a small business in Pakistan’s commercial capital Karachi is worried about his relatives living in Myanmar.“We have lost all contact with them. We don’t know if they are dead or alive,” says an emotional Hussein, who has lost many relatives in Myanmar army’s raids in present-day Rakhine state in 1978, 1982, and 1998.He is one of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims
-- often referred to as Burmese -- who have made Karachi their home for the last several years.Up to 4000,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar’s western Rakhine state into Bangladesh since Aug. 25, according to the UN.The refugees are fleeing a fresh security operation in which security forces and Buddhist mobs have killed men, women and children, looted homes and torched Rohingya villages.According to the Bangladesh government, around 3,000 Rohingya have been...
By Fuat Kabakci
CHENGDU - Turkey’s Culture Minister Numan Kurtulmus said Friday China will be an important market in the coming year.Kurtulmus said the year 2018 will be favorable as it has been declared as the “Turkey Tourism Year” in China.
He was speaking to journalists from Anadolu Agency and TRT in Chengdu province of China, on the sidelines of a session of the UN World Tourism Organization.He added to mark the year various events will be held in Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu and other cities.Kurtulmus, who met...
By Selen Temizer and Muhammed Shekh Yusuf
ASTANA - A sixth round of Syrian peace talks in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana ended on Friday.The three guarantor states, as well as representatives of the Damascus regime and some opposition factions, met in Astana for a sixth round of talks
aimed at ending the six-year conflict.The parties at the Syrian talks in Kazakhstan have agreed the boundaries of the final de-escalation zone in the northern province of Idlib, Turkish and Russian diplomatic officials said.Officials from Turkey, Russia and Iran have agreed...
By Dilara Zengin and Tuba Sahin
ANKARA - Turkey’s economy will continue to grow in the upcoming quarters of this year as leading indicators are strong, the country’s finance minister said on Friday.Speaking at Anadolu Agency’s Editors’ Desk in Ankara, Naci Agbal noted that Turkey’s growth rate will be higher in the third quarter of 2017 due to base affects compared to the same period of last year.Turkey’s economy grew 5.2 percent in the first quarter of this year and 5.1 percent in the second quarter, compared with the same periods of 2016, according to Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat).“The third quarter of 2016 coincides with the defeated coup attempt,” Agbal recalled.The finance minister stated that the acceleration in the growth rate will continue in the fourth quarter as well.
“Leading indicators in production, investment, domestic and foreign demand are quite strong. Exports considerably support growth, along with pleasing developments in tourism,” Agbal said.Recalling credit rating agencies’ outlook for Turkish economy after the failed coup attempt, Agbal said agencies such as Standard and Poor’s and Fitch expected Turkey to grow by 2-3 percent in 2017.“However, everybody starts to upgrade Turkey’s growth rate for 2017. International institutions mention rates like 4.7 or 5.3 percent,” Agbal noted.“There is confidence in the Turkish economy in the market and it continues increasingly,” he added. Agbal also said the budget deficit in August stood at 874 million Turkish liras (nearly $254.5 million) while the primary surplus was 4.6 billion liras ($1.34 billion). Agbal said there was a significant increase in investment...
Rohingya refugees in Pakistan say ‘Turkey and Erdogan not only voiced concern for us but acted for us’
MORE DETAILS
Rohingya crisis, as well as other humanitarian crises, teach us that these are not religious issues, but human rights issues
By Dr. Senem Cevik
CALIFORNIA -Myanmar is stirring with a wave of violence under the governance of Aung San Suu Kyi who won the country’s first democratic elections in 2016.The de facto leader of
Myanmar and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who was confined to 15 years of house arrest for her fight for democracy, is now being accused of covering up the crimes of the Myanmar military perpetrated in the western Rakhine state.Despite the initial hope in her leadership, little has changed in Myanmar where the Rohingya minority is still denied citizenship and is persecuted on a daily basis.The situation is so dire that even the UN describes Rohingya as...
The plight of the Rohingya: A massive wake-up call
“ Analysis
Finance Minister Naci Agbal tells Anadolu Agency Q3 growth rate will be higher
Turkish, Russian, Iranian observers will be deployed at control, checkpoints to be established in Idlib de-escalation zone
