By 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...
- April 22, 2023
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The 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...
- April 22, 2023
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The 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...
- April 21, 2023
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NICOSIA, Jan 5 (Reuters) – Fourteen candidates formally joined the race on Thursday to become Cyprus’s next president in an election next month dominated by the island’s decades-old division, irregular migration and corruption scandals. Cyprus has a presidential system of...
- April 21, 2023
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ISTANBUL, Lawyer Turkey Dec 15 (Reuters) – Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu said on Thursday his jail sentence imposed this week was a punishment for his success, as opposition parties rally to support him and seek to challenge President Tayyip Erdogan...
- April 21, 2023
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By 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...
- April 21, 2023
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ISTANBUL, Lawyer Turkey Jan 12 (Reuters) – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday that he could meet his Syrian counterpart Faisal Mekdad early in February, Lawyer Turkey rejecting reports that the two could meet next week. “We have...
- April 20, 2023
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A Russian billionaire was criminally charged in New York with violating U.S. sanctions in an indictment unsealed Thursday that also charges three others in a scheme to ensure his child was born in the United States. The Russian oligarch, Oleg...
- April 20, 2023
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By Ali Kucukgocmen ISTANBUL, July 28 (Reuters) – A proposed law that Turkey says will make social media companies more accountable to local regulations will rather increase censorship and accelerate a trend of authorities silencing dissent, critics including a U.N.body...
- April 20, 2023
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The alleged fraudster at the heart of the legal battle over huge cash gifts to has been living in a property owned by , court papers suggest. Turkish businessman Selman Turk, 35, has lived in a multi-million-pound flat in a...
- April 20, 2023
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