Some intros to articles you have to read twice 🐗

ft.com/content/a997a8… Amy Kazmin

Great reporting ->

Chad has “election” as president looks to shore up regime with new alliances on.ft.com/3Wm1w3o w/ ⁦Aanu Adeoye⁩

JPMorgan: “Our inclination is to downplay the news about trade restrictions by Turkey, even though in the short-term this may (marginally) increase price pressures in the goods segment”.

Road & public transit closures across swaths of Istanbul as the city of 16m+ people is on lockdown to prevent unauthorised May Day rallies at Taksim Square. Authorities view May 1 at the site as particularly antigovernment. Unions still sounded call for march at Taksim

Turkey’s trade with Russia drops after US pressure. One of the clearest signs of how the Biden administration’s Dec 2023 executive order is affecting trade incl in military linked dual use goods -> on.ft.com/4bhASNb w/ Chris Cook max seddon

'If someone turns off your headlights while you’re driving at night, it gets dangerous.'
Baltic ministers sound the alarm about effects of Russia's GPS jamming on civil aviation Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 Margus Tsahkna Baiba Braže ft.com/content/37776b…

Turkish Airlines ‘not in a rush’ to buy more Boeing jets on.ft.com/4dfF3uT

The FT has struck a licensing deal with OpenAI, giving it access to its archive to train its artificial intelligence models aboutus.ft.com/press_release/…

Turkish Airlines has warned that “problems” at Boeing had held up negotiations over a major jet order as the carrier sealed a deal to deepen ties with the US manufacturer’s rival Airbus. ft.com/content/abde7c… w/ Sylvia Pfeifer

Turkey in talks with ExxonMobil over multibillion-dollar LNG deal to curb its dependence on Russian energy ft.com/content/375687… via @ft Adam Samson

Late to tweet, but very interesting piece by ⁦Adam Samson⁩ & Philip Georgiadis on growth of Turkish airlines, which took a gamble - & are seemingly winning - from post-pandemic recovery on.ft.com/4bf5ZJq

SCOOP: Calstrs, one of the world's biggest pension plans, has admitted to 'significant' errors in how it was calculating carbon emissions from its giant $331bn portfolio

It has delayed the publication of its 2023 net zero report.

Full story:
ft.com/content/173995…

Dear stats agencies, please please please stop issuing data in monthly .doc files.

When did Invesco turn into Apollo?

story w/ Harriet Clarfelt

on.ft.com/49SywTZ

Tonight’s Passover Seder felt especially important and poignant with everything going on in the world right now. Chag Pesach Sameach ✡️

Hakan runs a business that’s now Europe’s biggest white goods maker. He’s quite outspoken on sustainability and also has interesting things to say about the (still) overheating appliances market in Turkey. Worth a listen ->

Financial Times, bugün Türkiye havacılık sektörünün Avrupalı rakiplerine göre hızlı büyüdüğü ve sektörde pazar paylarının THY ve Pegasus’a kaptırıldığı minvalinde bir yazı yayınlamış.

Avrupa’nın büyük ulusal havayolu grupları, British Airways'in sahibi IAG, Air France-KLM ve…