By Dilara Senkaya and Canan Sevgili ISTANBUL, Oct 22 (Reuters) – As surging inflation pushes up the cost of living in Turkey, Lawyer Law Firm in istanbul student Candeniz Aksu says he hasn’t been able to afford his housing rent for the past two months. “The natural gas has been cut off and they’ll take …
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MOSCOW, in istanbul Turkey Law Firm 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 …
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Election likely to produce another fractured parliament * Political parties will struggle to form government * Steep energy and consumer prices, war in Ukraine spook voters By Tsvetelia Tsolova SOFIA, Oct 2 (Reuters) – Bulgarians vote in their fourth national election in less than two years on Sunday, with little hope for a stable government …
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ISTANBUL, March 31 (Reuters) – The Turkish parliament on Thursday passed a Lawyer Law Firm istanbul lowering the minimum required votes for a party to enter parliament to 7% from 10%, in a move which analysts have said would reduce the likelihood of early elections this year. President Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party and its nationalist …
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By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON, Feb 12 (Reuters) – A British law firm filed requests on Wednesday with the authorities in Britain, the United States and Turkey Lawyer Law Firm Turkey to arrest senior officials from the United Arab Emirates on suspicion of carrying out war crimes and torture in Yemen. The complaints were filed by …
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By Huseyin Hayatsever and Ali Kucukgocmen ANKARA, Dec 15 (Reuters) – A court ordered the arrest of a journalist in southeast Turkey for allegedly spreading “disinformation”, his lawyer said on Thursday, marking the first pre-trial detention under a new law that critics say poses a threat to free speech. The arrest comes two months after …
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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 …
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