Word: iskenderun
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tremendous vibrancy in Turkey. You can see it in Istanbul, a city of 15 million, with its growing roster of expensive hotels, new upscale shopping malls - and perpetual traffic jams. But you can also find it in other parts of Turkey, in places like the Mediterranean port of Iskenderun...
...provincial boy with no family connections, and it has fueled speculation that he must have had help from his school's KGB sponsors. Suspicions increased when Zhirinovsky, after studying Turkish and English for five years and then landing a job as a translator in the Turkish city of Iskenderun, was kicked out of the country eight months later...
Last week Iraqi oil flowed into new lines through Turkey to the Mediterranean port of Iskenderun, boosting export capacity from 1 million bbl. of oil a day to 1.5 million bbl. In April, Saudi Arabia increased the volume of Petroline, its four-year-old link between Saudi and Iraqi oil fields and the Red Sea port of Yanbu, from 1.8 million bbl. to 3.2 million bbl. In addition, plans are under way for a $2 billion Iraqi line, called IPSA-2, capable of carrying 1.6 million bbl. to Yanbu...
...Hijacking. Investigators for the European Community began looking for the missing uranium several months after the Scheersberg A showed up empty at Iskenderun. They developed evidence that the cargo had not vanished in a hijacking: the uranium was shipped by a firm that knew it would never arrive at its destination in Italy. The firm was a now-defunct German petrochemical company called Asmara Chemie, and it had purchased the uranium-which was mined in what is now Zaire-from the Belgian mineral firm Societe Generale des Minerals. Asmara Chemie had no previous record of buying uranium...
...cannot be traced because they had forged passports and false identities. But one of TIME'S sources talked with a former Israeli crew member in 1973, in the Ivory Coast. According to the sailor, after leaving Antwerp the Scheersberg A sailed straight for the waters between Cyprus and Iskenderun. Without breaking radio silence, it made a rendezvous at night with an Israeli ship that carried a special winch. As two Israeli gunboats hovered near the freighters, the barrels of uranium were transferred in total darkness. Except for an occasional Hebrew command, no one spoke. The uranium, TIME...