Foreign media outlets are trying to misguide the local public "with their despicable headlines and sneaky articles" on Türkiye's upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says.
Turkish President Erdogan has criticised the British weekly over its cover story, which called on outsiders to pay attention to Türkiye's upcoming elections, claiming that the country is "on the brink of disaster" under the incumbent president.
"The so-called journalists and editors at The Economist obviously never bothered to provide decent journalism on our people's struggle for our democracy," says Türkiye's Communications Director Fahrettin Altun.
"Türkiye maintains the admission of Sweden and Finland entails risks for its own security and the organisation's [NATO] future," President Erdogan argues in The Economist article.
Doubts remain over Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina government’s sincerity in cleaning up the country’s notorious police force.
The election is the first in the nation of 33 million since Mirziyoyev took power in late 2016 following the death of strongman Islam Karimov, who had run the former Soviet republic as a police state for 27 years.
The current standoff between the US and Iran represents the symbiosis of hard military assets and cyber escalation.
The Austrian capital beat Australia's Melbourne, which had held the crown for seven consecutive years. It's the first time Vienna has topped the list. The annual survey ranks 140 cities around the world, based on a range of variables.
As the world eagerly awaits the outcome of the United States presidential elections, one of the candidates is the subject of a traditional Russian souvenir.
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