Tag: Corruption
A judge cited “extraordinary” and “remarkable” meetings two years ago involving top U.S. and Turkey political figures to intervene in a New York prosecution Thursday as he rejected efforts by a state-owned bank in Turkey ...
US Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin. AFP PHOTO / EITAN ABRAMOVICH US Treasury officials have confirmed that Secretary of Treasury Steve Mnuchin recently attended a White House lunch with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, ...
Car parks in touristic or busy spots in the Turkish capital were rented out to the SOS Foundation for one hundredth of their revenue during the term of Melih Gökçek, the former mayor of the ...
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu – AFP Photo Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu was recruited during his membership in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) by US lobbyist Paul Manafort, as part ...
İstanbul’s new mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu in a city tram. Newly elected mayor of İstanbul Ekrem İmamoğlu has said some vehicles at the municipality were exchanged for cheaper models before June 23, when he was elected ...
The İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality paid around 13.5 million Turkish lira to a media company on April 17 just hours before the city’s newly elected mayor from the opposition party, Ekrem İmamoğlu, assumed office, according to ...
Ekrem İmamoğlu An İstanbul administrative court has blocked a decision by Ekrem İmamoğlu to allow for duplication of the municipal databases for purposes of examination, Euronews Turkish service reported on Friday. İmamoğlu’s decision assigned two ...
Buses are parked at the bus station in Istanbul, Turkey, June 14, 2017. An oversight report on Istanbul’s many financial problems questions why the city owns a huge fleet of municipal buses but contracts out ...