2025-03-25
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Hello and welcome to World Business Report from the BBC World Service.
I'm David Harper.
And coming up on this edition, we will have more on the ongoing protests in Turkey in just a second.
We're also finding out why grain exports have been such a key point of the ceasefire discussions between Russia and Ukraine.
And some news which didn't go down all that well with fans of the K pop band Newjeans.
Really hard for us to say this.
But this might be our last performance for a little while.
Why do bands seem to fall out with their record labels so often?
The Music Lawyer Jules O'Riordan, known to some as the DJ Judge Jules,
tells us more later on in the program.
First of all, though, to Turkey,
where we're now seeing a real economic impact following anti government protests which have reached levels not seen in more than a decade.
It's followed the arrest and detention of Istanbul's Mayor Ekram Imamolu last Wednesday on alleged corruption charges.
He's a prominent figure in Turkish politics and is seen as the person most likely to be able to challenge the rule of the long serving leader,
Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The crackdown has been extended to the of left wing politicians,
lawyers and journalists in pre dawn raids.
Today,