Akdeniz’de mazot kaçakçılığı: yeni bir “karanlık filo”

2023'ün sonlarında Sicilya kıyılarında bir tanker, Rus menşeli olduğu düşünülen yüz binlerce litre mazotu başka bir gemiye aktarırken durduruldu. Geminin Malta, İtalya ve Libya arasındaki şüpheli hareketleri yeni bir kaçakçılık …

Temiz Enerjiye Giden Kirli Yol: Ormanı Yutan Maden

Avrupa’nın yeşil enerji devriminin ceremesini Türkiye’nin küçük bir orman köyü çekiyor. Manisa Gördes’te Zorlu Holding’e ait Meta Nikel Madeni el değmemiş asırlık ormanları ve bölgenin su havzasını yok ediyor. Yaşam …

The Mine that Ate the Forest: the dirty road to clean energy

The Meta mine in Gördes is expanding to supply nickel-cobalt for the electric vehicle revolution in Europe. Locals say it is destroying centuries-old forests and the region's water supply

Bir köy nasıl yok olur?

Bundan on yıl önce, Melen Barajı Projesi İstanbul’a su temin etmek uğruna binlerce insanı evlerinden etti. Gecikmelerle boğuşan proje halen tamamlanmış değil.

Village of the Dammed

Ten years ago, Turkey's Melen Dam project evicted thousands from their homes to provide water to Istanbul. It remains mired in delays.

Türk Hava Yolları karbon dengeleme projeleri: İklim kriziyle mücadele mi yeşil aklama mı?

Dünyanın dört bir yanına yaptığı uçuş sayısı gün geçtikçe artan Türk Hava Yolları'nın karbon ayak izi de akıl almayacak boyutlara ulaşmış durumda. Peki acaba şirketin yeni CO2mission programının bir etkisi …

There’s something off with Turkish Airlines' carbon offsets

As Turkish Airlines expands its flights throughout the world, its carbon footprint is greater than ever. Will its new CO2mission programme make a dent?

War Turns Odesa’s Black Sea Green

Once a sanctuary for Odesa locals, Lanzheron Beach is now suffering the ecological impacts a year after the Kakhovka dam catastrophe

Peace Before Empire

The plague of nostalgia for Russia’s lost empire continues to destroy Ukraine. But not all former colonisers cause so much suffering. Anna Nemtsova was in Portugal for the 50th anniversary …

Shipbroken: EU inspectors ignore lethal practices at Turkish shipyards

Shipbreaking is one of the world’s most dangerous jobs. Can the EU keep workers safe?

Romanian Court dismisses lawsuit against Football Leaks stories

Two-year legal battle ends in win for Football Leaks reporting

Jailed Congolese opposition leader “unreachable” since being forced to undergo medical treatment in Turkey

Jean-Marie Michel Mokoko landed in Turkey last Friday for treatment for malaria. His supporters and lawyers suggest he is COVID posititve.

Стал известен план по передаче нескольких миллионов евро из России правящей партии Италии “Лига”

Новая книга утверждает, что люди, близкие к правящим кругам России и Италии, спланировали вывести три миллиона евро из государственной энергетической сделки, чтобы профинансировать предвыборную кампанию партии “Лига”.

European Prosecutors Launch Judicial Cooperation on Football Leaks Data

Prosecutors from nine countries are joining forces to share and examine the biggest data leak in history

“I never acted with the aim of getting money, but for the public interest”

Outed as the source of the Football Leaks revelations, Rui Pinto talks about his life, his work and its impact on the industry behind the beautiful game

"This story has its origins in a love for football"

William Bourdon, lawyer for Rui Pinto, named as the whistleblower for Football Leaks, opens up on this exceptional case

Deadlock in Brussels over Trucking Wages

Eastern and Western Europe are at war over the salaries of drivers

What happened to EU Funds in Bulgaria?

Over one billion Euro in human resources projects faced a lack of monitoring, despite high-profile scandal

What Happened to EU Funds in Romania?

Kickback controversies, conflicts of interest, near-zero ambitions: the EU-backed human resources program under investigation

Exposed: Norwegian-owned firm making truck drivers cheat safety test

East European drivers are fed answers for road health and safety exam

Romanian Trucker, Polish Wage, Dutch Workplace

How salaries migrate across the EU in the road haulage business

Gypsy Kings for a Day

Baked pig, whisky, dancing and used clothes: a Roma celebration

Architects of the Extreme

How urban planning in Bucharest changed from a western vision of functional housing to a sabotage of the city

Drumul Taberei: Utopia Interrupted

What happened to the ideal Modernist city on the edge of Bucharest

When the Night Has Come

Romania after dark

The Captive Trap

Consulting giant Accenture promoted software showing how to boost prices of design-protected car parts

Convicted Fraudster Behind News Shaming Romania in UK Media

Ex-lawyer's role in stories attacking Romanians in The Sun and Sky News, the truth of which are under question

Dream Houses

Unfinished mansions are appearing across north Romania’s rolling fields - built by emigrants hoping to return to a better home

Who Taxes the Wind?

Serbian Prime Minister’s former firm was part of offshore network investing in renewables in Europe and Australia

The Angolan Job

Did Sporting Lisbon's key shareholder, multimillionaire Alvaro Sobrinho, steal money from his own bank?

Living on the Edge

The quest for a better life at the outskirts of Bucharest

How Gucci Plays Tax Games Across Europe

When it comes to the public purse, the classic Italian label is no big spender

Another Fine Messi

Payments by Barcelona to Lionel Messi’s charitable foundation have come under focus by Spanish authorities

“I-am scos inima cu o furcă”

Exorcism amator sub investigatie

Second to Last

Migrant wave through Serbia to west Europe highlights plight of Serb refugees from Yugoslav regions in 1990s

Italian Neofascist Leader’s message to local business: Invest in Crimea

Italy’s manufacturers have been checking out a relocation to Russian-occupied peninsular

Auto giant Volkswagen caught in Luxembourg tax scheme

How VW built up a 17 billion Euro business in the Grand Duchy with only five employees

How Romania sold out its workers to foreign investors for IMF and EU cash

Welcome to the minimum wage society

International Criminal Court Secrets Fallout: Misleading Statements and Official Inquiry

Confidential info sharing and oversight lack risk undermining results of world court

Offshore scheme behind the riches of Uzbek dictator's daughter

What is the source of multi-million wealth of Lola Karimova, daughter of deceased Uzbek leader Karimov?

Turkey energy deals helped open door to Kurdish independence

Despite Turkey’s attack on Yes vote in Kurdish referendum, Ankara was a willing participant in secret oil contracts with Iraqi-Kurds, in defiance of Baghdad

Türkiye, Kürdistan’ın bağımsızlığına giden yolu nasıl açtı

Yıllardır Bağdat’ı göz ardı edip IKBY ile doğrudan ilişki kuran Ankara, bağımsızlığa giden yolu petrol boru hatlarıyla açtı

Secrets of the ICC: Jolie, Clooney and the world-fixer psychosis

How celebrities and billionaires interfere in the pursuit of global justice

Airbus Corruption Allegations Point Straight to the Top

European Aerospace giant created “slush fund” in UK as part of offset deal

Secrets of the International Criminal Court: The Kenya U-Turn

Ex-prosecutor Luis Ocampo plays behind scenes in failure to bring justice to 1000s killed in political violence

Where have all the mothers gone?

Romania’s parents leave to work abroad in the absence of a living wage at home, and children pay the price

International Criminal Court secrets: the Yezidi Lobby Scandal

Lies, conflicts of interest, a false identity: how lobby for persecuted Iraqi minority messed up

Secrets of the International Criminal Court Revealed

Offshore accounts and Libyan war interests of ex-prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo probed

The Boyko Report

DEEP ANALYSIS: How Fashion TV investor and Russian billionaire Oleg Boyko and his Latvian partners are using Malta as a tax haven

How Turkey’s war on Gülenists was exported to Romania

Cancelled passports, blackmail allegations, death threats

What happened after The Sun left town

The Fix-Up

Three-way Art Battle for Streets of Kyiv

Communist, Nationalist and underground symbols fight for Ukraine capital urban space

Syrian child refugees in Turkey work in fields for slave wages

War victims as young as 11 picking fruit for EU supermarkets

The End of the Line

Romanian kids abused by Italian elite at Rome Termini station

"Many girls thought it would be a game where they make love to one man and then another"

Shadowing the international streetwalkers of Naples

Georgia’s blitz of reuniting abandoned children with their families comes at a cost

Orphanage closure at breakneck speed

Checking in to Europe's largest illegal drugs supermarket

Finding a new class of east European addicts who steal for heroin in Spain

The Last Stigma

Ex-cons on the buzz of crime, serving time and discrimination

Moldovan Roadtrip

I jumped in a car and journeyed through a gloomy Moldovan Autumn - without any target in mind

The Neapolitan Exodus

Exploring the favelas of the Romanian Roma in Italy

Expat Romanians: their own worst enemy

How Romania topped prisoner numbers in Italy - and how this is changing

“The EU doesn’t really know what Lithuanians are”

Why does the Baltic state have the highest percentage of expats in EU jails?

“It's so painful to realise we are victims”

Women sex-trafficked from Romania to Spain reveal journey from tragedy to recovery

Cosmetic giant Avon workers fired after challenging bosses on grim conditions

Employees for 'Company for Women’ fight for better deal for female blue-collar staff

Half a million abandoned kids: moving forward from southeast Europe’s history of shame

Child protection changes probed in nations rising from Communism

Return of the Boyars

Locals and inheritors battle to keep ownership of village, land and forest

EU’s freedom of goods policy opened door to Paris terror attacks

Lack of EU rules and free market fetishism ease sale of weapons used by terrorists

Moldovan energy intermediary company linked to “billion-dollar bank theft” scandal

Moldova's power supply depends on firm in frozen conflict zone with mysterious off-shore owners

The Death of the Field

A village that struggled through communism is now sold off to Italians

Crimea - where Russia's war on drugs has deadly consequences

Dozens of users die as annexed peninsular switches drug policy

The White Seagull

In the most isolated village in Romania's Danube Delta, the Russian community of Lippovans of Sfiştofca hold an annual championship in chess

"These villagers have nothing to their name"

Locals forced to give up land, which is sold on to Dutch Rabobank subsidiary at massive profit

The Invisible Wall

Georgia's disabled strike out to achieve self-empowerment

The Timebomb

Moldova's ruling class is in turmoil - but its opposition is fiercely divided

Dutch Rabobank buys up land stolen from Romanian farmers

Smallholders wake up to find their land seized by corrupt officials

Revealed: Turkey's massive global mega-mosque plan

Exporting Islam to five continents with massive multi-million mosque blitz

European development bank ensnared in Turkish labor abuse row at Fiat and Ford factories

Auto-workers suffer violations at plants supported by publicly-funded bank

Fiat ve Ford fabrikalarındaki metal işçilerinden Avrupa İmar ve Kalkınma Bankası’na şikâyet

Kısa mesajla işten atılıyorlar, fazla mesaiye zorlanıyorlar ve sosyal medyada gözetleniyorlar: Türkiye’nin oto sanayi çalışanlarının hakları ihlal ediliyor.İşçiler ve sendikaları, işverenlerinin finansörlerinden olan Avrupa İmar ve Kalkınma Bankası’na işçi haklarını …

Children victims of Turkey’s war on workers

Pro-business drive for growth has fatal consequences for young

Kids killed for cheap Turkish produce in EU supermarkets

Human rights first casualty of nation's drive to be major EU export market

Türkiye'nin işçilere açtığı savaşın çocuk kurbanları

Ekonomiyi büyütme baskısı gençler için ölümcül sonuçlar doğuruyor

Avrupa marketlerindeki ucuz Türk malları için ölen çocuklar

AB ihracat pazarının başlıca ülkesi olma yolunda hiçe sayılan insan hakları

Danube Delta under the gaze of four photographers

Four Romanian photographers are revealing the Danube's Delta people and their ways of life

How realistic is a union between Romania and Moldova?

Stepping through the minefield of history at a flashpoint between the EU and Russia

HIV epidemic sweeps across east Europe as economic crisis threatens

Virus risks plaguing region as political warfare rages and economies tumble

A wedding in the sky

Shot in the revolution, pimped out and lost to heroin - a forgotten victim of Romania's uprising

Ghosts of Sochi

Counting up the deaths of construction workers for Russia's Winter Olympics

The fight to reclaim Pankisi

Troubled region struggles to dump its label as a nest of terrorists

Gagauzia

A summer journey through Moldova's ethnic Turk republic

Let's talk about sex in Moldova

To stop rise of HIV, the country needs a deep and meaningful conversation about sex

How Romania fails its battered women

Eight reasons why Romanian society neglects victims of domestic violence

“When you want to kill yourself - it would be great to have someone to talk to”

Exploring the hidden crime of domestic violence among Romania's middle classes

Bucharest wedding singer crippled by legal highs, rescued by breakdancing

Paralyzed by legal highs, singer was homeless, his body collapsing - until he took up popping, locking and breaking

Fake perfume boom puts health and security of European Union at risk

Criminals are flooding the EU with fake perfumes from China - and bringing funds for gangsters

Return to paradise - Russian tourists in Abkhazia

Joy and beauty in the ruins - a photo-journey through the beach resorts of Abkhazia, the frozen conflict neighboring the Winter Olympics in Sochi

Krokodil sinks teeth into persecuted Georgian drug community

Injectable home-made drug is savaging heroin-starved addicts

Bucharest's Cradle of Yiddish Culture risks destruction

Jewish Theatre survived the Holocaust, Communism and Revolution - but is now under threat of collapse

Foreign Governments, top diplomats and film stars caught up in Rosia Montana Gold Corp PR history

Bizarre prizes, diplomatic pressure, a dance with Vanessa Redgrave - PR gold mine-style

In Moldova Christmas comes twice a year

In a country divided between the influence of the EU and Russia, Christmas is a political celebration

How Hare Krishna Saved Me from Drugs in Tiraspol

Breaking free of crime and addiction needed a cocktail of God and Freud for ex-fighter Yuri

"Tolerance is the failure to resist evil"

How Moldova's Orthodox right rages against the rise of western values

Unlikely Dissidents

Meeting the dedicated opponents of shale gas fracking across two continents

Billion-Euro Rosia Montana mine project rips communities apart

With the future of Transylvanian gold mining plan in question, a report from a village where families are at war

Folk traditions join with new money in rural Romanian weddings

Marriages in northeast Romanian villages adopt a fresh identity in an age of work migration

Pride and Concrete

How Romanian work migrants sacrificed the comforts of a life abroad to build the dream mansion at home

Torture of suspects reveals dark heart of Transnistrian justice

Fake executions, forced confessions and attacks on prisoners' families in shadow republic

Paralyzed by home-made alternative to heroin

Drug users face disability due to injecting dye from kids' chemistry sets

German Karate teacher recruits Romanian kids into global child abuse imagery ring

Remote village becomes video studio for global market - without the knowledge of the victims

Armenian Parliament tightens grip on fish-farming

Mapping how politicians exploit high value fish farm business

Parliament-backed fish-farms risk triggering drought in Armenia’s heartland

Fish farms with links to Yerevan Parliament are sucking up water supplies for desperate villages

Azeri ruling dynasty offshore links potentially “in violation of law”

First family of Azerbaijan shareholdings with firms in tax havens, new records reveal

Smack in the USSR: how injecting drugs in the Soviet Union was socializing

The journey of one Georgian woman through three decades of opiate abuse

Pride and Concrete short film

Romanians working in France transform cottages in their home villages into mansions of steel and concrete

A Black Sea journey

Mysterious, menacing, mythical and unknown - a travel story in pictures around the Black Sea

Ukraine oligarch links to off-shore cash haven revealed

Billionaire divorce exposes money-laundering ties between the Black Sea and Caribbean

Scale of illegal GM cultivation in Romania lacks scrutiny

Extent of criminal growth of GMOs remains a mystery

Romania bowing to US pressure to rethink GMO ban

Ten years of American pro-GMO lobby in Bucharest reaps a change in Romanian view on biotech

Deadly Moldovan drug provokes addicts to lose jaws

Fatal intoxicant extracted from anti-flu tablets targets facial bones of users

Kill, adopt or set free on the streets? Options for Romania’s millions of stray dogs

As Romania poises for mass murder of its strays, a documentary explores how canines took over the country

Shale gas revolution risks cutting Romania a bad deal

Rip-off fears for nation as US energy giants gear up for fracking