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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: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday December 08 2016, @01:59AM
It didn't just "erupt". Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton designed a US policy that supported creating the civil war in order to utterly destroy Syria as a favor to their Israeli allies.
It's odd, I distinctly remember a conversation over a decade ago, back when the Official Enemy was Iraq, when I suggested that the US was going to create problems with Syria as soon as they declare victory in Iraq. Why, my incredulous audience asked? Because it's a neighbor of Israel that isn't a US lapdog like Egypt and Jordan are.
Their next target is Iran. It's easy to see coming: Iran, like Syria, is a salient on the much longer Oceania-Eurasia border.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.