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Turkey's exports top $169.5B in 2020

Turkey's exports reached $169.5 billion in 2020, the trade minister announced Tuesday, citing preliminary data. The headline figure, despite the severe economic contraction and shrinking in foreign demand in our export markets, especially the in EU, is the exporters' success, Ruhsar Pekcan...

Turkey: Analysis of China's CoronaVac vaccine continues

Samples of the CoronaVac vaccine brought to Turkey’s capital last week, are under tests in the Health Ministry labs for emergency use approvals, said the ministry on Tuesday. The samples of the vaccine, developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech, which were brought on Dec. 30, 2020, are...

Albanian premier due in Turkey for talks on Wednesday

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama will pay an official visit to Turkey on Jan. 6 on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's invitation, Turkey's Communications Directorate said on Tuesday. In a statement, the directorate said bilateral relations between Turkey and Albania as well as steps...

Israeli firm in Gaza extracts drinking water from air

The densely populated Gaza Strip has long lacked sufficient drinking water, but a new project helps ease the shortage with a solar-powered process to extract potable water straight from the air. Unusually, the project operating in the Islamist-run Palestinian enclave, which has been...