Author: Taner Selim

Six supermarket chains in Turkey have announced that they fixed prices for thousands of products during January. These moves came after President Erdoğan blamed supermarket chains for rising inflation.Turkey’s leading supermarket chains (Şok, Migros, CarrefourSA, A101, BİM, Happy Center) have announced that they fixed prices for thousands of products during January. The chains said that they fixed prices for especially staple food products “to fight with inflation” in separate announcements. Grocery chain Şok was the first to announce the move, saying that they fixed prices for 1000 products to “contribute to the country’s economy and the budget of customers.” Migros…

Before 2016, Alex Markakis was gung-ho on pursuing a career in professional baseball. But a proposition from a local restaurateur threw a curveball at those plans, and the pair have since opened seven restaurants and bars, mostly in southern Maine, the latest with a concept that speaks to his past pursuits. COMING TO ROCK ROW Rock Row already has several casual eateries, both national chains and local outposts, and expects to have as many as 15 restaurants within the next three years. Still to come: a food hall – the first of its kind in Maine – which will feature 11…

Sunday’s Greek parliamentary election looks likely to be a dress rehearsal for a new round of voting in the busy summer tourist season — barring a surprise coalition deal by dissonant opposition parties. Opinion polls indicate that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ center-right New Democracy could rake in about 35%, some 6 percentage points ahead of leftwing former prime minister Alexis Tsipras’ Syriza party. But ND still wouldn’t have enough to govern alone, and sharp divisions between the two main contenders and the four smaller parties forecast to enter parliament all but preclude a functioning coalition under either ND or Syriza. A second…

Aviation authorities of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan met in Tashkent to discuss increasing number of flights and expanding the geography of routes, Kazinform has learned from the press service of Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development. The Kazakh delegation was led by Chairman of the Ministry’s Civil Aviation Committee Talgat Lastayev, while the Uzbek side was headed by Deputy Minister of Transport Zhasurbek Choriev. As a result of the negotiations, the sides agreed to amp up the number of flights more than twofold via Astana-Tashkent (from 12 to 36 flights per week) and Almaty-Tashkent (from 20 to 36 flights per…

Energy, transportation, trade, economics as well as regional and global matters will be discussed during the Türkiye-Azerbaijan-Turkmenistan trilateral summit, Türkiye’s president has said. “We will also sign various agreements,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday, speaking at a press conference at Ankara’s Esenboga Airport before heading to Turkmenistan to attend the first summit between the leaders of Türkiye, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan. “Our goal is not only for the people of the three nations; it is to establish a more prosperous and secure future for the brotherly Turkic nations and the region,” he continued. Erdogan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, and Turkmenistan’s…