Turkey
Investigation into Turkish sect reawakens phantoms of recent past
Suleymanci case stirs ghost of Gulen. And yet again companies are being placed in the hands of state administrators.
Skywell EVs catch fire across Turkey, Chinese engineers arrive to investigate
Rash of incidents has also sparked fierce public debate over post-sale support.
Turkey revives one-week repo auctions
Move has brought effective policy rate to 37% from 40% at overnight window.
Is Netanyahu's attack on Syria part of his greater election strategy?
The US ambassador to Turkey claimed that Israel’s strike on a Syrian airbase may have been an election ploy by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and with bitter rival Gadi Eisenkot rising in the polls, this is an accusation worth exploring.
BEYOND THE BOSPORUS: Erdogan’s patronage on display as Turkish labour union inaugurates new HQ
As any sharp PR practitioner in Turkey will tell you, Mr President’s head nearly bumped up against the ceiling of the old one.
Turkish F-16 jets based in Estonia join missions to down Russian drones
Five such aircraft and ground crews were on August 1 dispatched to Estonia's Amari air base.
Rosatom is building 28 reactors abroad and negotiating 50 more
Rosatom is building 28 nuclear power units in nine countries and has signed agreements for 17 more, its chief executive told President Vladimir Putin.
China’s $303bn ‘shadow trade’ exposed as apparent Asia-wide tariff dodge network
The report, carrying the somewhat dramatic title of ‘The Great Transshipment Scam’ and headed by an image of a Trojan horse style graphic, says Chinese exporters increasingly routed goods through third countries
Kazakhstan’s Freedom Holding receives first foreign brokerage house license in Turkey since 1992
Freedom Holding operates through more than 200 offices in over 20 countries across North America, Europe and Asia.
Number of mapped sinkholes in Turkey’s Konya basin reaches 739
380 of the sinkholes in Konya are "well-type" cylindrical collapses. They are deep and sheer-walled shafts that have appeared almost entirely within the past three to four decades, directly tracing the surge in deep-well industrial farming.
Istanbul-listed cement maker Cimsa to build Ireland’s largest rooftop solar plant at Mannok facility
The company has already commenced construction of the 6-MW project, which will cover approximately 38,800 square metres, equivalent to around 5.5 football pitches, and will comprise approximately 10,000 solar panels.
Hellish scenes in Cyprus as Turkey’s problem with mountains of imported plastic waste washes ashore
Mounting pollution on northern Cypriot beaches show spillover costs of Ankara’s ambition to dominate Europe’s waste-processing trade.
Britain's drones are hitting Russian refineries leading to retaliation fears
A British-built drone flying into a refinery outside Moscow is a different kind of object from a British-built missile doing the same thing, and both London and the Kremlin know it.
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UNCCD COP17 addresses scourge of desertification
With up to 40% of world’s land degraded, delegates from around world gather in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, to advance solutions.
BEYOND THE BOSPORUS: Turkish judiciary’s AI tool automatically assigns criminal organisations to detainee files
Prosecutors can breathe more easily as pressure on them to make their case is eased.
Iraq pays $1.62 per barrel to Turkey for oil transported via Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline
Baghdad sold around 42mn barrels in July, made up of about 35mn from southern ports and 7mn from Turkey's Ceyhan terminal on the Mediterranean.
Russia demands answers from US, Turkey over cluster bombs for Ukraine
Turkey wants to hand Ukraine a stockpile of American cluster bombs that has been sitting in its depots since the 1980s. Moscow has asked Washington and Ankara to explain themselves.
Iran and the Philippines offer Russia two very different farm-export bets
Russia's meat and feed exporters face a choice between two very different markets: Iran, slow and bureaucratic but predictable, and the Philippines, fast-growing but brutal on price.
Europe killed 25,000 of its own people this summer for want of air conditioning
Extreme heat has killed more than 25,000 people across Europe this year, according to data compiled from government agencies and research institutions in Germany, Spain, France, the UK, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
The Black Sea war sends world wheat prices up
The US Department of Agriculture has cut its forecasts for Russian and Ukrainian grain exports because of the Black Sea shipping war. The prices of every rival exporter have gone up.