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Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Court of Human Rights is hearing a case brought by Turkey’s Bosphorus Airways against Ireland, which it says broke European human rights rules by seizing a plane in 1993 it had leased from Yugoslav Airlines when Yugoslavia was under UN sanctions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has drawn up plans to lend the Erdemir Group’s Erdemir and Isdemir Iron & Steel Works. Co. up to Euro 200 million to convert, modernise and expand the Turkish company’s production capacity at its Eregli and Iskenderum plants.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission, reflecting serious divisions between European Union (EU) member states, remains split over whether or not to recommend Turkey for EU membership. The Commission has to decide by October 6 though the final say will be down to the heads of the EU governments at their summit meeting in December.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BOOMING demand for beer in Russia has encouraged the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to lend Euro 7.9 million to help expand and restructure a Turkish-owned bottling plant. The money will be spent on OJSC Pokrov Glass Plant, in northwest Russia, which was bought by Turkey’s Anadolu Cam last March.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
WINE production waste – or pomace – the seeds, skin and stems of crushed grapes, could be commercially developed as a natural inhibitor against several types of bacteria, a new study has claimed. Research by Turkish academics published in the UK-based Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, showed that pomace has high concentrations of antioxidants which, when mixed with methanol in concentrations ranging from 0.5% to 20%, prevented the growth of 14 types of bacteria including E-coli, salmonella, staphylococcus aureus and enterobacter aerogenes.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
WINE production waste – or pomace – the seeds, skin and stems of crushed grapes, could be commercially developed as a natural inhibitor against several types of bacteria, a new study has claimed. Research by Turkish academics published in the UK-based Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, showed pomace has high concentrations of antioxidants which, mixed with methanol in concentrations ranging from 0.5% to 20%, prevented the growth of 14 types of bacteria including E-coli, salmonella, staphylococcus aureus and enterobacter aerogenes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU food contamination rapid alert system RASFF has revealed cases where carcinogenic dyes Sudan 1 and Sudan 4 have been discovered in food. Affected minced meat, spice-salt, chilli sauce and pepper, palm oil, pepper sauce, cayenne and red peppers have been removed from sale in Britain, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Environment Agency (EEA) says the old 15 member European Union’s (EU) greenhouse gas emissions fell by 0.5% from 2001-2, following increases in the previous two years. Sadly, proactive anti-global warming measures were not top of the agency’s reasons for the cut.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE TURKISH government has launched a formal investigation that could lead it to erecting temporary protective safeguard duties on imports of activated earth and clays. Turkey has told the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that imports have risen from 3,173,604 kilograms in 2001 to 3,977,236 in 2002 and 4,970,399 in 2003, (although 2000 imports were slightly higher than 2001, at 3,749,432 kg).…

Keith Nuthall
GOVERNMENTS in south-eastern Europe have agreed it is “fundamentally important to increase and intensify interregional cooperation in air transport.” Such work, which would cover airport operations and air traffic control will be written into a detailed memorandum of understanding, with a detailed and timetabled work programme.…