8-15 July 2019
22 July 2019
Former deputy head of state-owned Halkbank Mehmet Hakan Atilla is released from prison in the US and repatriated to Turkey after completing his 32 months sentence over the Iran sanctions violations.
18 July 2019
NATO’s secretary general Jens Stoltenberg praised Turkey’s role in the alliance after the US formally initiated the process to suspend Turkey from the F-35 fighter jet programme.
17 July 2019
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, head of the LDPR party in Russia: "I met twice with President Erdogan and had a face-to-face discussion with him. And he told me that Turkey could leave NATO and that he's ready for it. That would be a terrible blow to NATO as Turkey protected the southern flank of NATO."
16 July 2019
The new Mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, gave an interview to BBC's Hard Talk program. The highlights of the interview focused on the Syrian refugee problem in Turkey and its effects in Istanbul. More than 3.5 million Syrian refugees are now living in Turkey and hundreds of thousands are living in Istanbul, putting a strain on infrastructure and community relations. Imamoglu stated that the country's policy towards refugees has been mishandled.
16 July 2019
EU sanctions Turkey for drilling off the coast of Cyprus. EU foreign ministers decided to cut aid to Turkey and suspend high-level bilateral talks.
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8-15 July 2019
