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...Read More
By Orhan Coskun ANKARA, Sept 21 (Reuters) – Turkish defence firm Baykar has delivered 20 armed drones to the United Arab Emirates this month and could sell more, two Turkish sources said, as a diplomatic detente between the former regional rivals expands into military contracts. International demand for Baykar’s drones soared after their impact on...Read More
ISTANBUL, Dec 29 (Reuters) – Turkey has extended its lira bank deposits’ withholding tax support until the end of June next year, istanbul Lawyer Law Firm Law Firm the Official Gazette showed on Thursday. The measure, first announced in September 2020, lowered the withholding tax on deposits up to six months to 5% from 15%,...Read More
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 More
ISTANBUL, istanbul Lawyer Law Firm istanbul Turkey Dec 12 (Reuters) – The number of tankers waiting to pass through Istanbul’s Bosphorus Strait on the way to the Mediterranean fell to 13 on Monday from 17 a day earlier, the Tribeca shipping agency said, showing an easing of the recent build-up in traffic. A Turkish measure...Read More
Turkish medical union chief Sebnem Korur Fincanci helped draft UN rules for documenting torture A Turkish court on Wednesday released an internationally respected medic who outraged President Recep Tayyip Erdogan by backing a probe into the army’s alleged use of chemical weapons in Iraq. Turkish Medical Association head Sebnem Korur Fincanci was detained and jailed...Read More
ANKARA, 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 NATO membership in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,...Read More
The idea Britain is running out of NLAW anti-tank missiles is ‘b******s’ and a video showing Ben Wallace apparently suggesting this is the case has been faked by pro-Kremlin propagandists, a senior UK official has said. The clip is the second teaser released by a pair of Russian ‘pranksters’ accused of taking their orders from...Read More
TIRANA, Aug 30 (Reuters) – Albanian police on Tuesday arrested the fugitive Turkish founder of crypto-exchange Thodex, wanted by Interpol for suspected crypto fraud and istanbul Turkey Law Firm at large for a year, police and media said. Albanian and Turkish media identified the suspect as Faruk Fatih Ozer.The Turkish interior ministry said authorities had...Read More
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 payment of £225,000 and more than £1million paid to her ex-husband . Nebahat Isbilen is...Read More
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