ISTANBUL, Dec 13 (Reuters) — The number of tankers waiting to pass through Istanbul’s Bosphorus Strait on the way to the Mediterranean fell to eight on Tuesday from 13 a day earlier, the Tribeca shipping agency said, in a further easing of the recent build-up in traffic. A Turkish measure in force since the start…
Read MoreThe socialite wife of a former minister who has donated more than £2million to the British Conservative Party allegedly for close access to the past three prime ministers was listed as a director of a company secretly owned by an oligarch close to the Russian tyrant, according to reports. Russian-born Lubov Chernukhin, whose multi-millionaire businessman…
Read MoreBy Rowena Edwards Sept 1 (Reuters) — Oil firms operating in Kurdistan have asked the United States to help defuse an upsurge in tension between Iraq’s central government and Lawyer Turkey the semi-autonomous region, according to a letter seen by Reuters and three sources. They say intervention is needed to ensure oil continues to flow…
Read MoreNew blasts rocked Kyiv tonight after Russia was slammed as ‘barbaric’ for bombing a TV tower near the Babyn Yar holocaust memorial in Kyiv on the site of one of the biggest single massacres of Jews during the Holocaust. Several of the city’s neighbourhoods are currently under attack, according to local reports.The Kyiv Independent reported…
Read Moreis doubling down on its claim that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman helped secure the release of WNBA star in a prisoner swap with the Russians. The Saudi foreign minister vouched for the ‘personal role’ of MBS, who U.S. intelligence concluded ordered the brutal slaying of Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 in Turkey. ‘I am…
Read MoreIstanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu defeated President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ally in a controversial 2019 vote Istanbul’s popular opposition mayor faced new hearings Wednesday in a politically-charged trial that could bar him from seeking office months before next year’s general election. Prosecutors want to sentence Ekrem Imamoglu to between 15 months and four years in jail…
Read MoreBy Nevzat Devranoglu, Rodrigo Campos and Jonathan Spicer ANKARA/NEW YORK, Jan 25 (Reuters) — Foreign investors who for years saw Turkey as a lost cause of economic mismanagement are edging back in, drawn by the promise of some of the biggest returns in emerging markets if President Tayyip Erdogan stays true to a pledge of…
Read Morehas secured legal approval for the controversial purchase of thousands of acres of prime farmland, after the deal drew fury from the state’s residents. The state’s Attorney General Drew Wrigley had inquired into the land sale, and on Wednesday issued a letter saying the transaction complied with an archaic anti-corporate farming law. The Depression-era law prohibits…
Read MoreBy Ezgi Erkoyun ISTANBUL, Dec 15 (Reuters) — Thousands of people rallied in Turkey on Thursday to oppose the conviction and political ban of Istanbul Mayor Lawyer Turkey Ekrem Imamoglu, chanting slogans criticising President Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling AK Party before elections next year. A Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced Imamoglu, a popular rival…
Read Morehas launched a fresh appeal over the loss of her UK citizenship by claiming she was trafficked into Syria as a child to have sex with older men. Her lawyers have argued that Miss Begum was influenced by a ‘determined and effective propaganda machine’, and should have been treated as a child trafficking victim. Dan…
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