Crowd street is the nation's largest online real estate investing platform. Turkey has filed charges against more than two dozen people and accounts, including former central bank governors. Soudy arabia is spending tens of billions of dollars to draw in film makers to show case its striking landscapes. But turks would be wise not to complain too much on social media.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s idea for saving the lira by backing deposits with dollars means the Turkish taxpayer will end up bailing out the Turkish depositor. Our correspondent finds striking insights in 40 years’-worth of humdrum submissions to a unique sociology project. And Saudi Arabia’s multi-billion-dollar push into the cinema industry it outlawed for decades.
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