ISTANBUL, Jan 11 (Reuters) – Turkish authorities have filed a lawsuit against Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a potential challenger to President Tayyip Erdogan, accusing him of rigging a public tender while he was a mayor of the city’s Beylikduzu district, the broadcaster Haberturk reported on Wednesday. The charge carries a possible jail sentence of up...
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Russia says U.S. is not taking a constructive approach to Istanbul…
MOSCOW, Dec 12 (Reuters) – Russia on Monday accused the United States of not taking a constructive approach to diplomatic talks in Istanbul, but said the Turkish city was a convenient place for such contacts to take place. A meeting between U.S.Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns and Sergei Naryshkin , head of Russia’s SVR...
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Erdogan tells Putin ceasefire needed in Ukraine peace efforts…
ISTANBUL, Jan 5 (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Vladimir Putin in a phone call that peace efforts in the Russia-Ukraine war should be supported by a unilateral ceasefire and a “vision for a fair solution”, the Lawyer Law Firm Turkish presidency said on Thursday. It said in a statement the two leaders discussed...
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AP News in Brief at 9:04 p.m. EST
Kherson celebrates Russian exit yet faces huge rebuilding KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) – Residents of Kherson celebrated the end of Russia´s eight-month occupation for the third straight day Sunday, even as they took stock of the extensive damage left behind in the southern Ukrainian city by the Kremlin´s retreating forces. A jubilant crowd gathered in Kherson´s...
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Russian billionaire charged with violating US sanctions
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 Deripaska, 52, has faced economic sanctions since 2018, when he was designated for them by...
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Turkish court orders detention of medical group head over…
ISTANBUL, Oct 27 (Reuters) – A court ruled on Thursday that the head of Turkey’s medical association should be detained ahead of her trial on charges of “spreading terrorist group propaganda,” her lawyer said, in what one rights activist said was a move to silence her. Prosecutors opened an investigation into Sebnem Korur Fincanci last...
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Turkish court sentences Erdogan rival to jail for insulting officials
ISTANBUL, Dec 14 (Reuters) – A Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a popular rival of President Tayyip Erdogan, to more than two years in prison and imposed a political ban for insulting public officials, in a ruling set to go to an appeal. Imamoglu, istanbul Turkey Lawyer Law Firm from the...
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LITERARY FICTION
LITERARY FICTION The Romantic by William Boyd (Viking £20, 464 pp) The Romantic Boyd’s new novel revisits the ‘whole life’ formula of his 2002 hit Any Human Heart, which followed its hero across the 20th century. The Romantic does the same thing for the 19th century. It opens with the kind of tongue-in-cheek framing device...