EID HOLIDAY 9 DAYS
The Eid-al-Adha holiday, which will start on July 20th 2021, has been determined to be 9 days. President Erdoğan said: "Our citizens actually have a holiday from Friday evening of July 16th, until Monday morning of July 26th."
STATE OF EMERGENCY
The government placed the powers granted by the Decree-Laws of the State of Emergency period into the omnibus with the hope to extend it for 3 more years on the grounds of “fighting terrorism” and sent this to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
With the law expected to be passed by the Parliament, President Erdoğan will be able to use the same authorities until 2023. The opposition criticized this demand with these words, “He wants to govern the country under the conditions of the state of emergency”.
RIGHTS OF THE EMPLOYEES
In the Employees' Year 2021 Global Rights Index Report prepared by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), which gathers Trade Union Confederations and employee organizations from 163 countries in the world and represents over 200 million members, Turkey took place among the 'Top 10 worst countries in the world for employees'.
According to the report, the right to strike, the right to form and join a union, the suppression of trade union activities and civil liberties, the right to freedom of expression and assembly, the lack of wages and hard-working conditions of workers and the exploitation of labor are most prevalent in these 10 countries; Turkey, Bangladesh, Belarus (Belarus), Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Honduras, Myanmar, Philippines and Zimbabwe.
HYPER INFLATION
June inflation data showed that the gap between Consumer and Producer inflation reached a very high level and the difference exceeded more than 25 points. The opposition said, “It is seen that the annual price increases of more than 300 goods, products and services in the inflation basket of TURKSTAT have reached the level of 4-5 times the official inflation rate. These data show that we have entered into the process of 'hyper inflation'".
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
In the draft resolution approved by the European Parliament with 603 votes to 2, the pressures on the opposition in Turkey, the blocking/preventing the success of opposition municipalities, and the political restrictions that were intended to be imposed on the opposition leaders were put on the agenda. It was agreed that the positive agenda between the EU and Turkey would be conditional on taking steps towards improvement in the fields of human rights, the rule of law, women's and children's rights and judicial independence.
AFGHANISTAN PROBLEM
While negotiations for the protection and management of Kabul Airport in the capital of Afghanistan by the Turkish Armed Forces were accelerated, US President Biden announced that he had moved the withdrawal date of the US troops forward in this country to August 31. While the Taliban delegation held talks in Moscow, it declared that 85% of the country was under their control. It was recorded as a significant development that Iran brought the Taliban and the Afghan administration together in Tehran in return for Turkey's mission in Kabul.
THE TURMOIL IN LIBYA DOESN'T END
In response to the memorandum of understanding announced after the Berlin Conference in Libya, 75 delegates who attended the meeting, representing different regions of the country, at the meetings held under the auspices of the UN in Geneva last week, dispersed without reaching a consensus. The United Nations (UN) said in a statement, "There was no consensus on the controversial issues regarding the constitutional basis of the December 24 elections, which were previously agreed among the members of the LPDF (Libyan Political Dialogue Forum).” Such a situation, means that the civil war continues for many years and that this oil-rich country and the Mediterranean become more destabilized.
EGYPT'S NEW NAVAL BASE
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi inaugurated his country's most modern military naval base in the coastal region closest to Libya on July 3rd. Marshal Khalifa Haftar, the commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA-LUO), which controls eastern Libya and the border region with Egypt, although he was invited to the base opening ceremony, did not attend the ceremony,
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