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Nazlan Ertan

Nazlan Ertan

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BIM discount stores — An undated image of a BIM grocery store in Turkey. — Twitter

People buy vegetables at a bazaar in Ankara, Turkey August 16, 2018. REUTERS/Umit Bektas - RC1C13720540

Turkish grocers pull peppers, eggplants after Erdogan warns of price 'treason'

Ayla Jean Yackley

Ayla Jean Yackley

People look through a shop window in the main shopping and pedestrian street of Istiklal in central Istanbul, Turkey October 9, 2018. REUTERS/Murad Sezer - RC163B87C610

Turkey’s fantasy war on inflation

Mustafa Sonmez

In Istanbul, reporting on economics

People hold up their electricity bills as they protest against high energy prices in Ankara on Feb. 9, 2022.

Turkey’s producers face tough choices after staggering energy hikes

Muhdan Saglam

Cameramen film a news conference by Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul February 3, 2014. Dozens of their colleagues are in prison or on trial, thousands of faceless opponents hound them on Twitter, and phone calls from government officials warn them over their coverage - all hazards of the trade for Turkey's journalists. Government critics who refuse to be muzzled can find themselves sacked. Others avoid trouble, such as the broadcaster which screened a documentary on penguins last June whil

Shared blame for state of Turkish media

Tulin Daloglu