ERDOĞAN-BIDEN MEETING
A meeting between President Erdogan and US President Biden at the NATO summit that will take place on June 14th was confirmed when the official statement was made by the White House. Before this meeting takes place, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu announced that they would send back the Russian military experts related to the S400s that are currently in Turkey.
Meanwhile, the starch-based sugar (NSB) quota was increased by 100 percent.
The opposition interprets both developments before the meeting as concessions to the United States.
FOREIGN CURRENCY
In the last year, the lira's value depreciation against the dollar has reached 30 percent and 40 percent against the Euro. Dollar continues to gain value against Euro and TL.
STRUGGLE IN TOURISM CONTINUES
The EU has announced that it will continue travel restrictions until 1st of July, keeping Turkey in the list of risky countries. The UK did not remove Turkey from the "red list" either. Russia has extended travel restrictions until June 21st.
The economic losses caused by the bad results in the last year's foreign visitor chart continues to get worse this year.
In 2020, the government decided to normalize as of June 1st , and opened the doors to tourism. Despite this, there was a very sharp decline in the number of tourists and tourism income, approaching nearly 70 percent.
ECONOMY
The growth rate, which was 4.5 percent in the first quarter of last year, was announced as 7 percent in the first quarter of this year. The opposition criticized saying, "What was this growth for when poverty increased, the share of wage earners in national income decreased, the number of unemployed reached 10 million?".
NEW CONSTITUTION
President Erdoğan stated that the 128-article draft of the new civilian constitution proposal is ready, and that they want to issue a common constitutional text, taking into account the draft of the ruling alliance's partner MHP, which is declared to have 100 articles, but the content of which is unknown. The number of ministers of the AK Party and MHP does not have the majority to take the Constitution to a referendum.
THE VIDEOS OF SEDAT PEKER IS NOT SLOWING DOWN!
Organized crime leader Sedat Peker released the 9th video on YouTube last Sunday morning. Peker's allegations continue to place the government, the press members close to the government and businessmen in trouble.
BIDEN-PUTİN MEETING
US President Biden and Russian President Putin are going to meeti in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 16th. Before the meeting, while the US President voiced threats of new sanctions against Russia, Putin announced that Russia could switch to Euro and Yuan in energy, oil, natural gas and other transactions. Russia's National Wealth Fund announced that it will zero out its dollar reserves. Before the Geneva summit, Putin indicated that he could declare economic war with the United States, if necessary!
NEW ERA IN ISRAEL
Israel has reached an agreement for an 8-party coalition that will end the 12-year Netanyahu term. In the 8-party coalition, which has been signed into a protocol in a way that has never been seen in any country until today, Zionist, Palestinian Muslim Arab, Orthodox Jewish, liberal, centre-right, left socialist and social democratic lines, and their leaders decided to form a government together. which would have been impossible for the parties and their leaders to come together under ordinary conditions,
Yair, the leader of the Yesh Atid (Future) Party, agreed with Naftali Benet, the leader of the radical religious Zionist Party, for the "revolving prime ministership" for 2 years. The resulting 8-party coalition has 62 seats in the Knesset. The coalition, which was met with great enthusiasm because it represents almost all segments of Israel and all colors and sides of contemporary society, is described as the "Government of Change".
