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 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 launched extradition proceedings. Police …
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Dec 12 (Reuters) – Russia sees Istanbul as a “comfortable place” to conduct diplomacy with the United States but does not yet believe Washington has adopted a constructive approach in talks, the RIA Novosti news agency cited Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin as saying on Monday. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has emerged as a …
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ROME (AP) – A maritime border agreement between Turkey and Libya’s U.N.-backed government is “unacceptable,” violates international law and flouts the sovereign rights of other countries, the foreign ministers of Italy and Cyprus said Wednesday.. Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio and his Cypriot counterpart Nikos Christodoulides said in a joint statement after talks in …
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ISTANBUL, Lawyer Turkey 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 Lawyer Turkey a “vision for a fair solution”, the Turkish presidency said on Thursday. It said in a statement the two leaders …
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House passes same-sex marriage bill in retort to high court WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S.House overwhelmingly approved legislation Tuesday to protect same-sex and interracial marriages amid concerns that the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade abortion access could jeopardize other rights criticized by many conservatives. In a robust but lopsided debate, Democrats argued intensely …
ISTANBUL (AP) – Lawyer Turkey´s parliament extended for 18 months a law that allows the deployment of Turkish troops to Libya. The bill renewed a one-year mandate that came into force in January following a security and military agreement with the U.N.-backed administration in Tripoli, in western Libya. The Turkish decision Tuesday comes in the …
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Imamoglu faces charges of ‘insulting’ public officials after beating Erdogan’s ally to become Istanbul mayor Turkish prosecutors on Friday sought to jail Istanbul’s mayor for at least 15 months, which would bar him from politics, over a remark he made after defeating an ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in elections, Lawyer Turkey his Lawyer …
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The US Embassy in Lawyer Turkey has denied claims that the husband of America’s Consul General in Istanbul crashed his car while drink-driving and then walked away from the scene after claiming diplomatic immunity. Turkish media reported that Mounir Elkhamri, the husband of US consul general in Istanbul Julie Eadeh, was driving a consular vehicle …
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Syrian swimmer Sarah Mardini at the premiere of the Netflix film ‘The Swimmers’ A trial in Greece of 24 migrant rescue workers accused of espionage, including Syrian swimmer Sarah Mardini who inspired a Netflix film, resumed Tuesday after more than a year as leading rights groups slammed the case as a masquerade. The trial began …
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