By Jonathan Spicer and Nevzat Devranoglu ISTANBUL - Turkey's central bank has begun setting the stage for an interest rate cut long sought by President Tayyip Erdogan, although most analysts don't think it will pull the trigger this week after inflation jumped and the lira took a slide. The bank has kept its benchmark rate at 19% since March, when Erdogan installed Sahap Kavcioglu as

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Erdogan's waning patience: Four questions for Turkey's central bank

ANKARA - Turkish medical producers protested on Thursday over unpaid bills worth hundreds of millions of dollars for equipment supplied to state and university hospitals. Hundreds of demonstrators, who said they were owed 6 billion lira ($709 million), threw their office keys to the ground in a symbolic challenge to authorities to run the companies themselves without the debt repayment.

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Hundreds in Turkey protest $700 million unpaid medical equipment bills

A Turkish drone base in the breakaway north of ethnically divided Cyprus could increase safety risks for thousands of commercial flights that cross the airspace around the eastern Mediterranean island, a flight safety group warned Tuesday.

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Turkey's president has told his German counterpart in a telephone call that Turkey does not have the capacity to deal with a possible new refugee wave from Afghanistan

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Turkey is working with the UN’s refugee agency to repatriate Syrians to their home country, the Turkish foreign minister said Sunday. His comments are at odds with the UNHCR’s overall policy towards returning migrants to Syria, a country that it still considers too dangerous to send refugees back to.

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MOSCOW - A Boeing 767 flight from Antalya in Turkey to Vladivostok in Russia's far east made an emergency landing on Saturday in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, the Interfax news agency reported, citing airport officials. The plane requested an emergency landing while over Krasnoyarsk, Interfax cited a source as saying. There were no reports of casualties. (Reporting by Alexander

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ISTANBUL - Two Turkish soldiers were killed and three others injured after an attack in Syrian's northwest Idlib region, Turkey's defence ministry said on Saturday. The troops had been on a "search and scanning operation", it said. Idlib is the last major area of Syria still in rebel hands, and parts of it are jointly patrolled by Turkish and Russian forces. (Reporting by Jonathan

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A 23-year-old man is expected to plead guilty to charges in connection to a hate crime that targeted a Turkish restaurant in Beverly Hills, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California announced in a statement on Wednesday. 

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