VOL. XLIV

No. 04

22-January-2001

TURKEY

Turkeys White Energy Corruption Probe Casts Shadow Over Blue Stream Gas Project

Officials investigating allegations of corruption in Turkeys energy sector have included the $3.2bn Blue Stream natural gas pipeline among the list of state energy tenders and major projects they intend to examine. Talat Salk, the State Security Court prosecutor in charge of the investigation known as Operation White Energy, said on 13 January that his team of inspectors would...