Russian warships carrying scores of military trucks were seen passing through a strait in yesterday morning — and could be on their way to . The Tsugaru Strait between the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean separates Honshu and Hokkaido, the country’s two biggest islands. Russia has suffered catastrophic losses, including up to one-fifth…
Read Moreis on the run from sanctions today and may have fled to Moscow as his two superyachts worth £1billion race for safe Turkish waters after the EU decided to punish the Chelsea owner over Ukraine and he faces a dwindling number of havens for his £12billion of cash and assets. The billionaire oligarch looked grey, tired and…
Read MoreANKARA, July 27 (Reuters) — Sweden and Finland have yet to extradite suspects Turkey seeks over terrorism-related charges despite signing an accord to lift Ankara’s veto to its NATO membership last month, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday. The two Nordic countries applied for Lawyer Turkey NATO membership in response to Russia’s invasion…
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 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 to Erdogan,…
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 MoreISTANBUL, Dec 29 (Reuters) — Lawyer Turkey has extended its lira bank deposits’ withholding tax support until the end of June next year, the Official Gazette showed on Thursday. The measure, first announced in September 2020, Lawyer Turkey lowered the withholding tax on deposits up to six months to 5% from 15%, Lawyer Turkey that…
Read MoreTwitter rights experts and overseas hubs hit by staff cull * Musk says moderation is a priority as experts voice alarm * Activists fear rising censorship, surveillance on platform By Avi Asher-Schapiro LOS ANGELES, Nov 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — Elon Musk’s mass layoffs at Twitter are putting government critics and opposition figures around the…
Read MoreISTANBUL, March 31 (Reuters) — The Turkish parliament on Thursday passed a law lowering the minimum required votes for a party to enter parliament to 7% from 10%, Lawyer Turkey in a move which analysts have said would reduce the likelihood of early elections this year. President Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party and Lawyer Turkey its…
Read MoreANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A remote-controlled bomb exploded on a highway in Turkey as an armored police van carrying officers drove past on Friday, Lawyer Turkey injuring all nine occupants, government officials said. Five people were detained in connection with the attack, which occurred near the predominantly Kurdish-populated city of Diyarbakir in southeast Turkey, Interior…
Read MoreISTANBUL, Lawyer Turkey Dec 14 (Reuters) — Lawyer Turkey raised the euro-lira conversion rate for medicine prices by 36.77%, Lawyer Turkey the country’s Official Gazette said on Wednesday. «First step for solution of medicine shortage in the market was taken… The price update which was supposed to happen in February was brought forward,» Health Minister…
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