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Wikileaks Release Implicates Turkish Energy Minister in ISIS Oil Trade

posted by on Wednesday December 07 2016, @05:28PM   Printer-friendly
from the if-you-have-the-cash-anything-is-for-sale dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes with an article about corruption and strange bedfellows in the oil trade:

WikiLeaks published on Monday a searchable archive of nearly 58,000 emails from the private email account of Berat Albayrak - Turkey's incumbent energy minister and son-in-law of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan – revealing the influence Albayrak has in Turkey and his correspondence regarding Powertrans, a company implicated in oil imports from ISIS-controlled oil fields.

The emails encompass 16 years between April 2000 and September 23, 2016. A search by the 'Powertrans' keyword in the published WikiLeaks emails returns 32 results, including emails sent to Albayrak regarding personnel and salary issues at Powertrans.

Turkey banned oil transportation by road or railway in or out of the country in November 2011, but included a provision in the same bill that it could revoke the ban in specific cases, such as meeting the needs of the military. The Turkish government later gave exclusive privilege to Powertrans for transit of oil, WikiLeaks says.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 07 2016, @05:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 07 2016, @05:46PM (#438442)

    Dammmmmmnnnnnnnnnnnn
    ISIS just got fucked up by a radical fundamentalist organization.

  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday December 07 2016, @07:57PM

    by Bot (3902) on Wednesday December 07 2016, @07:57PM (#438486) Journal

    b-but, weren't wikileakers terrorists who put US at risk of getting hit by ISIS?
    I have a lot of facts to rewrite nao.

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