News archive of July 2015

Bulgaria's Presa daily and Tema weekly will publish their last editions this week, 24 Chasa daily reported in Thursday.

Presa editor-in-chief Tosho Toshev has informed the staff that the last print edition of Presa will be out on Friday and Tema's last issue will be published on Saturday, 24 Chasa said, citing journalists from the two editions.

The wait is finally over, as the notorious for her tough, ‘no-nonsense’ approach Romanian ‘star’ representative of the IMF, Delia Velculescu has landed in Athens. Her arrival at the Athens Hilton Hotel was indicative of her ‘special’ status, something usually reserved for high profile royals or celebrities.

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants killed at least 12 police and army members since last week, after Turkey launched a two-pronged "war on terror" against PKK and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants.

Here is a chronology of events that started following a suspected ISIL suicide bombing in southeastern Turkey.

July 20

In a letter published in hard-core left site ‘Iskra.gr’, which fervently supports Panagiotis Lafazanis’s left platform grouping within ruling Syriza and a return to a national currency (the “drachma lobby” crowd), renowned Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis called on the leftist Greek government to abandon a policy of what he called “harsh austerity” and fall-back on a “no” vote during a recent r

Greek PM Alexis Tsipras might find some peace away from his inter-party squabbling, as he will be attending the official inauguration of the new Suez Canal scheduled for August 6 in Egypt.

The main opposition Republican People?s Party (CHP) has founded a team of party officials to investigate several fatal incidents, including a deadly attack on a public rally before the elections on June 7 and a July 20 suicide attack that killed 32 young people and the attacker. 

Central Bank Governor Erdem Ba?ç? said Turkey has no fear of a planned interest rate hike by the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) and the bank is ready for normalization. 

The Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) submitted a parliamentary motion on July 30 for an inquiry into the discretionary fund provided to President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an. 

In a state of law ruled by parliamentary democracy, all public works and executive functions should be practiced within legal boundaries, the HDP?s petition read, stressing the necessity for law and transparency. 

Police in ?zmir have collected substandard life vests from Syrian migrants, who buy them prior to their attempts to cross the Aegean Sea to Greece. 

Police carried out a life vest-collection operation in ?zmir's Basmane neighborhood, which is a common staging point for Syrian migrants as they await a chance to escape to Europe.

The leftist Greek government is finding it quite difficult to reel in ‘big fish’ tax evaders, but at least it will be coming down hard on all those … corrupt beach party goers!