🏙️ Building alaturca, Lebanon devastated
A boy who fled with his family the southern suburb of Beirut amid ongoing Israeli airstrikes, sleeps at a street in down town Beirut, Lebanon, on Sunday. Photograph: Hussein Malla/AP
Hello (again)! It is Monday, September 30.
Turkey made the headlines internationally, particularly in the US, following an indictment against New York Mayor Eric Adams that detailed a decade-long corruption scheme between the Mayor and Turkish officials. The alleged relationship involved the Mayor expediting a building permit for the redeveloped Turkish House and showing that he is a "true friend of Turkey" on some Turkey-related political issues. These, of course, allegedly, in exchange for campaign funding and luxury travel. Money and favors, naturally, come with ties, and it looks like those ties have some serious political implications. The punchline is that Turkish President Erdoğan was in New York this week for the UN General Assembly. He was supposed to leave on Thursday, the day of the announcement of charges against Mayor Adams, but cut his trip short and flew to Ankara a day earlier.
The other big story of the week was the assassination of Hezbollah's long-time leader, Hassan Nasrallah. The news were received with mixed and layered reactions in Turkey: a general condemnation of Israel and its tactics, some people showing grief over what they saw as an anti-colonialist leader, and some Syrians, those who have suffered for Hezbollah's active support to the Assad regime in the civil war that drove them away from their country to Turkey, celebrating his death.
Following Nasrallah's assassination, Israel stepped up its military operations against Iran's proxies, bombing many regions at once from Syria to Yemen.
Headlines from this week's bulletin are:
🇱🇧 Lebanon in terror, Axis of Resistance bombed
💰 New York Mayor in very Turkish trouble
🇯🇵 Japan has a new PM
🔔 A first in Austria (since Nazi times)
You will find the most important developments affecting world politics each week here, at Aposto World.
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Have a good week, an easy read, and see you next week.
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Aposto World is our English-language briefing on the news that matters around the world, written by the Aposto newsroom in Istanbul. Every Monday and Friday morning we go through the international press, region by region: the UK, Europe, the US, the Middle East, Africa, Asia-Pacific and the rest of the world, with a closing section on culture, science, technology and sport. Each story is told in a few clear lines with the context you need, and links to the original reporting so you can read further. One email, twice a week, and you are up to date.
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