Baku / 19.10.18 / Turan: President Ilham Aliyev left for Turkey to attend the opening ceremony of the STAR refinery in Izmir on Friday. The ceremony will be held today with the participation of the President of Turkey, other officials and high-ranking guests. According to Turkish media reports, the STAR Refinery plant will be the largest investment of Azerbaijan in Turkey. The company will produce diesel fuel, jet fuel, petroleum coke, liquefied gas and other products. The refinery will not produce gasoline and fuel oil. The plant plans to process oil varieties: Azeri Light, Kerkuk, and Urals. Refinery capacity will be 10 million tons per year. 100% of the enterprise belongs to SOCAR. -02D-
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On 4 February, the Baku Court of Appeal released former Russian judge Yelena Khakhaleva, who was arrested in Azerbaijan at the request of the Russian Prosecutor's Office.
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Afgan Sadygov, the head of the Azerbaijani website Azel.TV, who has been on a dry hunger strike since February 2 in the Tbilisi detention center, lost consciousness on Tuesday evening, his wife Sevinc Sadygova told Turan.
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