For the fourth consecutive month, the Turkish Central Bank kept the key interest rate at 14% in an attempt to contain the accelerating inflation driven by the collapse of the Turkish lira exchange rate and the war in Ukraine.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who, contrary to classical economic theories, considers that high interest rates cause inflation, forced the Central Bank to cut the key interest rate from 19% to 14% between September and December, which led to the collapse of the local currency. .
The exchange rate of the Turkish lira fell by 44% once morest the dollar in 2021, which led to a rise in the inflation rate of 61.1% over a year in March, its highest level since Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party came to power in 2002.
In a statement, the Turkish Central Bank said that the process of decreasing inflation will not start before returning to a peaceful environment in the world.
Despite government promises to control inflation, the Ukraine war has raised fears of a new price hike; Turkey is an importer of Russian and Ukrainian wheat and relies heavily on Russia for gas.
Under these circumstances, Erdogan announced in early February a reduction of the value-added tax on basic food commodities, and then at the end of March a reduction in the same tax from 18% to 8% on hygiene products and restaurants.
Erdogan, who spent 19 years in power as prime minister and then president, hopes to be re-elected during the next presidential vote scheduled for June 2023.
(AFP)
“Speeds you may have thought were impossible” will be possible; nothing less !
AMD will offer within a few months Ryzen 7000 “Raphael” processors, under Zen 4 CPU architecture, which will support DDR5 memory. In a recent webinar Meet the expertsJoseph Tao, Memory Enabling Manager within the company, said the focus would be on memory overclocking.
Here are his propos (spoken around the 35th minute): “Our first DDR5 gaming platform will be the Raphael platform. And one of the great things regarding Raphael is that we’re really going to try and push the envelope on overclocking. I can’t say more at this time, but speeds you thought might be impossible can be achieved with this overclocking spec. »
Joseph Tao does not name it explicitly, but he is no doubt referring to the technology of predefined overclocking profiles called RAMP, an acronym for Ryzen Accelerated Memory Profile ; AMD’s counterpart to Intel’s XMP 3.0. The HWiNFO software had received preliminary support from AMD RAMP earlier this year.
AMD confirms: no CPU overclocking for the Ryzen 7 5800X3D
An AM5 platform exclusively in DDR5?
Note that the processors desktop Ryzen 7000 Rapahel will be the second mainstream AMD chip series to support DDR5 memory. The Ryzen 6000 mobiles, code name Rembrandt, support DDR5-5200 and LPDDR5-6400 memory. On the competitive side, Alder Lake processors officially support DDR5-4800 memory.
Joseph Tao is careful not to put forward values for the Ryzen 7000 Raphael; we therefore do not know at this time which speeds will be officially supported by AMD’s CPUs. What seems certain, however, is that the AM5 socket will be a platform confined to DDR5 support. That is, unlike Intel’s LGA1700 socket, we shouldn’t have a mix of DDR4/DDR5 motherboards.
Mie Prefecture announced on April 15 that 631 people (including 139 people announced by Yokkaichi City) were infected with the new coronavirus and one man in his 80s died. A total of 64,579 people were infected and 280 people died in the prefecture.
According to the announcement, the breakdown of infected people by city and town is 154 in Tsu City, 139 in Yokkaichi City, 73 in Suzuka City, 67 in Matsusaka City, 33 in Ise City, 30 in Kuwana City, 20 in Komono Town, and 19 in Iga City. People, Nahari City 18 people, Kameyama City 13 people, Inabe City 11 people, Meiwa Town 8 people, Toba City 7 people, Tamaki Town 6 people, Tohoku / Kawagoe Town 5 people each, Kihoku Town 4 people, Shima / Owase City 3 people each in Odai Town, 2 people each in Asahi / Daiki / Kiho Town, 1 person each in Minami Ise / Yokkaichi / Taki Town, 1 person undisclosed.
The number of inpatients in the prefecture decreased by 13 from the previous day to 120, of which 1 was severely ill, and the bed usage rate was 23.8% and 1.9% for severely ill. The number of home recuperators increased by 39 from the previous day to 5,323.
According to the prefecture, the deceased man was found to have a new corona infection following hospitalization for another disease. The cause of death is not the new Corona.
* Added at 5:34 pm on April 15, 2022
Israeli police “Clash boiling” Palestinian mob – over a hundred injured!
Israeli Police ‘Clash of Fire’ – AFP Report on April 15 regarding the situation of the protracted conflict between Israel with Palestine Israeli police clash with Palestinian protesters at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the old city of Jerusalem. As a result, more than 100 people were injured.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said authorities had taken 117 injured people to hospital. Dozens more were given first aid at the scene. Three Israeli police were injured.
Palestinians clash with Israeli security forces at the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City Friday, April 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Eyewitnesses revealed that Palestinian protesters threw stones at Israeli security officials, who responded with rubber-coated bullets and sound bombs.
The clashes are a follow-up to a series of attacks in the West Bank over the past three weeks. It also happened during the Jewish Passover. Christian Easter which overlaps with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan
While the Palestinian Authority has stated that since January 2022 At least 36 Palestinians have been killed by Jews, including a 14-year-old boy who was shot dead by Israeli soldiers on April 14 and from May 2021. 323 Palestinians were killed, and 12 Israelis were killed.
Israeli security forces take position during clashes with Palestinians demonstrators at the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City, Friday, April 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Palestinian protesters are arrested by Israeli security forces at the Mughrabi Gate of the Old City of Jerusalem, on April 15, 2022. (Photo by Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
Palestinians clean the entrance to the al-Aqsa mosque following clashes with Israeli security forces in Jerusalem’s Old City April 15, 2022. Israeli security forces entered the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem before dawn on Friday as thousands of Palestinians were gathered for prayers during the holy month of Ramadan, setting off clashes that medics said wounded at least 117 Palestinians. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
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