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2.6 Politics - shorts
Floating power plant company Karpowership, owned by Turkish conglomerate Karadeniz Energy Group, was set to resume supplying electricity to Lebanon from two power ships on June 29 in a decision that it said amounted to a goodwill gesture against a backdrop of talks over payment arrears and a legal threat to its vessels.
Turkey kept its third place in the top provenance economies of counterfeit and pirated goods ranking by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), while its share in global seizures tripled to 12% in 2019 from 4% in 2016, the OECD’s “Global Trade in Fakes” report showed on June 22.
Turkey has not taken sufficient steps to address the concerns of the OECD Working Group on Bribery about the country's implementation of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention or its very low level of enforcement against the offence of foreign bribery, the OECD said on June 29.
“It's not possible to do any business without bribery from the moment you come into contact with the state,” the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) chair Kemal Kilicdaroglu separately said on June 29.
US President Joe Biden has tapped Jeff Flake, a former anti-Donald Trump Republican senator and Christian missionary, to become the next American ambassador to Turkey.
Flake served as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) in South Africa during the 1980s. He was a US Senator between 2013 and 2019 and served in the US House of Representatives between 2001 and 2013 as a member of the Republican Party from Arizona.
In August 2020, Flake officially endorsed Joe Biden for president.
The US Congress still does some nonsense bills etc. against Erdogan.
15 TURKEY Country Report August 2021 www.intellinews.com