When the first Turkish power ships set sail in 2013, the aim was to help temporarily with the electricity crisis while we build new power plants and enhance the existing ones. Five years later, we're still suffering from severe outages and are bringing in further power ships. Last week, a third power ship was set to sail in Jiyye to provide the area with potentially 200 additional megawatts that will be free of charge for…

Pope Francis has officially declared the death penalty to be inadmissible in all cases and enshrined his statement in an official Catholic teaching, a major shift in the church's position that is likely to upset many pro-death penalty Catholics. The Church's official stance now is that "the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person". Whenever I wrote about the death penalty being wrong, I used…