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WikiLeaks WikiLeaks has released a cache of thousands of personal emails allegedly from the account of senior Turkish government minister Berat Albayrak, son-in-law of the country's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which it says shows the extent of links between Mr Albayrak and a company implicated in deals with Isis-controlled oil fields. The 60,000 strong searchable cache, released on Monday, spans the time period between April 2000 - September 23 2016, and shows Mr Albayrak had intimate knowledge of staffing and salary issues at Powertrans, a company which was controversially given a monopoly on the road and rail transportation of oil into the country from Iraqi Kurdistan. Turkish media reported in 2014 and 2015 that Powertrans has been accused of mixing in oil produced by Isis in neighbouring Syria and adding it to local shipments which eventually reached Turkey, although the charges have not been substantiated by any solid evidence. Mr Albay

Διασυνδέσεις του γαμπρού του Ερντογάν με την εταιρεία Powertrans, η οποία εμπλέκεται σε υποθέσεις εισαγωγής πετρελαίου από το ISIS αλλά και οργανωμένες προσπάθειες χειραγώγησης των μέσων ενημέρωσης από το καθεστώς Ερντογάν αποκαλύπτουν τα email του Μπεράτ Αλμπαϊράκ που δόθηκαν στη δημοσιότητα από τον ιστότοπο Wikileaks. Πρόκειται για 57.934 email από τον προσωπικό λογαριασμό του υπουργού Ενέργειας της Τουρκίας και γαμπρού του προέδρου Ρετζέπ Ταγίπ Ερντογάν και τα οποία αφορούν μια χρονική περίοδο συνολικά 16 ετών, από τον Απρίλιο του 2000 μέχρι τις 23 Σεπτέμβρη του 2016 και αποκαλύπτουν την επικοινωνία που είχε ο Αλμπαϊράκ με άτομα της τουρκικής ελίτ όπως πολιτικούς, επιχειρηματίες και μεγάλα ονόματα της Τουρκίας. Τα email φέρνουν στην επιφάνεια την έντονη επιρροή του υπουργού σε διάφορους χώρους της πολιτικής ζωής στην Τουρκία, ενώ προδίδουν και την οργανωμένη προπαγάνδα του Ερντογάν στον χώρο των μέσων επικοινωνίας κατά το διάστημα πριν και μετά το αποτυχημέ

by Tom Clifford Beijing. Lunchtime. A bitter wind is blowing from the north across Beijing making the temperature seems colder than minus 6 degrees Celsius. I am meeting a friend. “ You must try the chili tofu and parsnip soup. ” Then before she puts down the menu, she asks me about Trump, and the phone call. “ He should not have taken the call, ’’ she said as the waitress took our orders. I have always enjoyed my colleague’s company. She is tolerant, knowledgeable and witty. She wants to live in America. But what she said next stung me. “ There could be war over Taiwan. It is part of China. Chiang Kai-shek was president of China before he fled there in 1949. He didn’t flee to a foreign land. He retreated to part of China. ’’ On almost every other issue, the pace of economic growth, pollution, health and education investment, my colleague would disagree with Beijing. She is not a nationalist but on Taiwan she is marching to the same tune a

Syrian government forces today [6/12] made dramatic gains in retaking the last major population center still in rebel hands, eastern Aleppo. First the Syrian army retook several neighborhoods on the eastern side of the divided city, and then late in the day they re-took the old city on the northwestern side of eastern Aleppo. Though the BBC spin on the victory of Syrian government troops over mostly al-Qaeda forces in Aleppo is predictably biased toward the rebels, even that British government mouthpiece reported on the residents of Aleppo finally returning to their homes now that the jihadists have been routed. According to some reports, more than a thousand Aleppo residents have returned to their homes. The rebels are confined to less than 15 percent of the territory they once controlled in Aleppo and although some have claimed they will fight to the finish, hundreds have already accepted -- or are negotiating for -- either amnesty or resettlement offers b

‘ We were living in security and peace. These areas are being targeted, they want to force us to leave. Every Syrian is being targeted,’ one Syrian religious leader told a delegation of reporters who visited Aleppo earlier this month. by Eva Bartlett Part 5 - Humanitarian crossings: shelling of Castello road On Nov. 4, prior to our 9:30 a.m. arrival at the Bustan al-Qasr crossing and until our departure an hour later, no one had been able to cross from the area just beyond crossing, which is occupied by Jaysh al-Fatah militants. Two weeks prior to our arrival, journalists had reported that terrorist factions heavily shelled the crossing and areas around it starting in the early morning. A Syrian general at the crossing confirmed that shelling had taken place on Oct. 20, adding that three police officers had been wounded. A journalist in the delegation asked the general what he would say to Syrian civilians like Bashir Shehadeh, who demanded that the SAA e