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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.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 07 2016, @06:06PM
Get back to me in a year or two when all of our warmongering, region-destabilizing, and weapons-dealing in the middle east has come to an end. Oh wait, it won't happen because it makes a lot of people VERY fucking rich.
If for no other reason we should be sinking billions into renewable energy development just to get the hell out of that shitfest. Lets play nice with South America and work on building a better world so that we don't get out own "middle americas" shitfest of our own.