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Turkey mainly sells textile products, confectionery and vehicles to Tunisia and imports fertilisers and inorganic chemicals from the country.
Cyprus said on August 23 that it would revoke 14 passports issued to Turkish Cypriot officials in the breakaway north of the island over their "hostile" actions.
A number of Turkish Cypriot officials, including incumbent leader Ersin Tatar, are known to hold, or held, passports of the Republic of Cyprus.
A controversial free trade agreement (FTA) upgrade negotiated by the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and Turkey in 2018 is set to come into effect from October 1 after surviving opposition from Switzerland, an EFTA member together with Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.
The decision to postpone ratifying the deal came after an intense row in the Swiss parliament about Turkey’s human rights record following the failed military coup that took place in the country in July 2016.
The original FTA has existed since 1992. The new version brings in regulations to facilitate mutual recognition of intellectual property protection, service sector exchanges and trade and sustainable development.
For example, noted swissinfo.ch, Turkey has granted new trade concessions for Swiss imports of cheese, meat preparations, fruit juices, coffee, tobacco, chocolate, biscuits, muesli and certain baby foods.
The upgrade also includes measures to avoid customs discrimination for Swiss companies following the formation of a customs union between Turkey and the EU.
Trading volume between Switzerland and Turkey stands at CHF3.1bn ($3.4bn). Turkey ranks 22nd among nations Switzerland trades and as a sales market for Swiss companies.
2.11 Polls and sociology
Apple removed gay dating application Hornet from its App Store in Turkey after a court order was issued last year claiming that personal rights of the Ankara provincial gendarmarie command were violated.
Hornet has more than three million users in Turkey.
In 2013, Turkey blocked the popular gay dating app Grindr. The government - without any court decision - has also periodically blocked every website that contains the word “gay” in its link, including networking and pornographic websites.
The number of households in Turkey that have access to the internet as of 1Q 2021 moved up to 92%. 61.9% of households have a fixed broadband connection, while 89% have a mobile broadband connection.
83% of individuals aged 16-74 said they had used the internet in 2021, up from 79% a year ago.
88% of men and 78% of women in the country said they used the internet. 81% of all individuals in the 16-74 age group used the internet regularly, versus
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