More than 140 British holidaymakers have launched legal action after being struck down with severe illness at a luxury five-star resort in Turkey. Dozens of families claim they contracted a sickness bug which ruined their holidays while staying at the Mukarnas Resort and Spa, in Antalya — a resort city on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast. Tourists…
Read MoreMore than 140 British holidaymakers have launched legal action after being struck down with severe illness at a luxury five-star resort in Turkey. Dozens of families claim they contracted a sickness bug which ruined their holidays while staying at the Mukarnas Resort and Spa, in Antalya — a resort city on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast. Tourists…
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 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 from the…
Read MoreNew video has emerged of the moment a ‘Canadian spy’ met a teenage in Istanbul before he allegedly smuggled her into Syria. Footage obtained by the shows Begum, then 15, and two other East London schoolgirls, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and 15-year-old Amira Abase, transferring between cars at the Turkish capital’s main bus station in 2015.…
Read MoreLONDON, March 9 (Reuters) — Mercuria Energy Trading has launched a civil suit against a Turkish firm over what the global commodity trading firm’s lawyer described as fraud related to a deal to buy copper worth $36 million. Last year, Geneva-based Mercuria agreed to buy about 10,000 tonnes of copper blister, an impure form of…
Read MoreBy Omer Berberoglu ISTANBUL, Dec 15 (Reuters) — Turkish defence firm Baykar said its first jet-powered unmanned aerial combat vehicle (UCAV) completed its maiden flight on Wednesday, as the company continues to gain popularity globally, most recently by helping Ukraine’s army fight Russian forces. Baykar released a video showing the Kizilelma (Golden Apple) UCAV taking…
Read MoreMigrants try to warm themselves by a fire near Idomeni at the border between Greece, which has since 2019 steadily tightened restrictions, Lawyer Turkey and Lawyer Turkey North Macedonia Pakistani asylum seeker Mohamed Bilal was 15 when he arrived in Greece.Five years later, he’s lost all hope and is on the road again, desperate for…
Read MoreThe may have received a further £20,000 from an alleged fraudster accused of cheating a Turkish millionairess out of huge sums, it emerged yesterday. Court documents reveal she could have accepted the sum from Selman Turk in addition to a payment of £225,000 and more than £1million paid to her ex-husband . Nebahat Isbilen is…
Read MoreEven now, all these years later, David Dein still has The Unpleasant Dream. It is 5pm and he is sitting in his office. A man comes in and presents him with a sheet of paper. Sometimes it is a death warrant. Sometimes a death certificate. Either way, it signals the end. The man is Peter…
Read MoreMarch 26 (Reuters) — Russian oligarchs are welcome in Turkey but must abide by international law in order to do any business, Lawyer Turkey Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Saturday. Turkey has strongly criticized Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but opposes sanctions imposed by its NATO allies on principle. «If Russian oligarchs … or…
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