Turkey bureau chief, Financial Times Author: "The Sugar King of Havana: the rise & fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's last tycoon" Likes are bookmarks
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🐬 I swam the Bosphorus in August, crossing from Asia to Europe, and I can attest that transcontinental travel is very very hard! 🏊
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More sailors died in the Black Sea than in any other body of water this year, outstripping fatalities in the Gulf
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Ahh, some light relief from those free-spirits @FTAlphaville, filling the gap "in the market for silly little quizzes".
"We don’t do these things for the clicks; we do them because we can."
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Turkey cuts interest rates despite $18bn investment funds scandal as.ft.com/r/bd20a5ff-8a1b-48… via @financialtimes
An air-defence system that can destroy attack drones for just $10,000 is helping drive a Turkish defence exports boom to the Gulf & countries such as Ukraine as governments seek affordable ways to fend off mass drone attacks
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John Paul Rathbone retweeted
Few news teams have covered a story as relentlessly and as thoroughly as Bloomberg’s Turkey crew, headed by @uguruzyilmaz, who helped blow the lid off Turkey’s investment fund scandal.
Months of top-notch reporting, capped by this must-read.
Inside the billion-dollar fund scandal rocking Erdogan's Turkey bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Turkey’s most-watched news television station abruptly switched to folk dancing and rerunning old movies after police launched a dawn raid on Halk TV & a state-appointed trustee took control of the pro-opposition broadcaster
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John Paul Rathbone retweeted
Good to see Donald buy Russian diesel instead of Canadian. I know its right on USA border but they sell imperialist, woke diesel that makes your truck gay.
Saudi Arabia, Pakistan & Nato member Turkey trigger mutual defence pact for 1st time, aiming to ensure “rapid deployment” of “military forces & capabilities” to Saudi
Turkey has not yet ratified the pact, making its deployment of troops unlikely for now
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John Paul Rathbone retweeted
Indication the Turkish Govt’s clampdown on media freedom is extending and likely to go further. I appear to be the only foreign journalist (so far) affected by a recent wave of online censorship. It’s a broad spectrum targeting X accounts of Turkish journalists, academics, media freedom, human rights and LGBTQ+ rights groups on ‘obscenity’ grounds. More than 1000 X accounts were blocked in Turkey in Sept - more than the entire 2025. I’ve been given no explanation for this action 🧵
John Paul Rathbone retweeted
A swimming story couldn't have been told in a more informative yet fun way.
What a fantastic piece of writing @JP_Rathbone
John Paul Rathbone retweeted
Erdoğan bids to contain fallout from Turkey’s $18bn stock market scandal--my gratitude to John Paul Rathbone for quoting my view, too
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"Sustaining the current level of pressure may cause the regime to implode, or it may not. What it will certainly do, if it persists for another year or more, is make Cuba increasingly ungovernable—by anyone"
Cuba’s Point of No Return foreignaffairs.com/cuba/cuba… via @ForeignAffairs
Despite the US sanctions deadline, dozens of flights departed Tehran’s main airport on Wednesday, bound for the major international hubs of Istanbul and Dubai, according to Flightradar24 data.
Arrivals were also operating, including from Shanghai.
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Turkey has arrested the founder of an investment brokerage at the centre of an $18bn alleged Ponzi scheme that has torched the savings of hundreds of thousands of investors & raised questions about why regulators did not act earlier to stop it
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Leading Iranian airline Mahan Air cuts flights to Turkey and Oman as US sanctions bite
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Turkey moves to liquidate funds at centre of ‘Ponzi-like scheme’
Move is latest in a series of measures that authorities rolled out this week in a swift and apparently comprehensive response to the problem
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Iran switches from ships to trucks to evade US blockade
"It is early in the morning & in the long queue of lorries waiting to enter Iran from Turkey, trucker Ashgar has spent all night inching forward his Chinese 375-horsepower Dongfeng rig..."
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