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Patrick Sykes

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Middle East Breaking News Editor at Bloomberg News

Turkey and Middle East news at Bloomberg. Energy, finance, economy and politics. Views mine, RT ≠ endorsement. All views mine. [email protected]

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  • 1 day ago | rigzone.com | Firat Kozok |Patrick Sykes

    Turkey is in talks to look for oil and gas in Bulgaria, and is also planning exploration work in Iraq and Libya, Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said. State-run Turkiye Petrolleri AO will “likely” sign an agreement with an unspecified foreign company in the next month to search for energy in Bulgaria’s part of the Black Sea, Bayraktar told reporters in Turkey’s Giresun province.

  • 3 days ago | financialpost.com | Firat Kozok |Patrick Sykes

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  • 3 days ago | bloomberg.com | Firat Kozok |Patrick Sykes

    An oil and chemical tanker in the Bosporus Strait in Istanbul. Photographer: Nicole Tung/Bloomberg(Bloomberg) -- Turkey is in talks to look for oil and gas in Bulgaria, and is also planning exploration work in Iraq and Libya, Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said. State-run Turkiye Petrolleri AO will “likely” sign an agreement with an unspecified foreign company in the next month to search for energy in Bulgaria’s part of the Black Sea, Bayraktar told reporters in Turkey’s Giresun province.

  • 1 week ago | bloomberg.com | Patrick Sykes

    Robert Yuksel Yildirim. (Bloomberg) -- Turkish billionaire Robert Yuksel Yildirim is on a $2 billion hunt for nickel mines, betting that the battery metal’s price will rebound and that the West will want those supplies to cut its reliance on China. After making his fortune in chrome and shipping under family conglomerate Yildirim Holding AS, he spun off those businesses this year into CoreX Holding.

  • 1 week ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Patrick Sykes

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9 Apr 25

RT @JWittels: The US has pulled out of global climate talks, where nations are trying to forge an agreement to make ships pay for their emi…

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7 Apr 25

RT @business: Bulgaria and Turkey will explore increasing natural gas transit capacity at their border, a move that may allow greater flows…

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29 Mar 25

RT @middleeast: Joakim Medin, a journalist for Swedish news service Dagens ETC, has been detained in Turkey, according to an article on the…