News archive of July 2015

Walter?s Coffee Roastery in Istanbul labels itself as the world?s first café to be inspired by the hit TV show ?Breaking Bad.? Now in its fourth month of operation, the café is proving to be a hit with locals and foreigners alike Fan of the hit TV series ?Breaking Bad? Then you better call? Deniz.

 An international bevy of curvaceous butts strutted their stuff at Colombia’s largest fashion event, Colombiamoda Fashion Week Show in Medelin, the 2nd-largest city of the South American country.

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The former house of Marxist revolutionary, theorist, Soviet politician and Red Army founder Leon Trotsky on Istanbul?s Büyükada Island is up for sale on a real estate website.  

A bill proposing the establishment of a single National Office for Prevention of Corruption uniting all existing anti-corruption entities has failed to pass first reading in Bulgaria's Parliament.

Turkey?s foreign trade deficit fell 21.6 percent in June from the same month in 2014 and 16.43 percent in the first half of the year from the same period in 2014, indicating improvement for three months in a row, data from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜ?K) showed on July 31. 

Turkey?s tourism income decreased by 13.8 percent in the second quarter of the year, down $7.73 billion compared to the same period of the previous year, according to data from the Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜ?K). 

The head of the parliamentary group of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo has submitted a resolution on "genocide during the war in Kosovo."

This has been reported on Friday by the Pristina-based Albanian language newspaper Koha Ditore.

By Debbie Papadakis

Beijing was chosen as the host of the 2022 Winter Olympics at the 128th International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session in Kuala Lumpur on Friday.

The Chinese capital beat the only other candidate - Almaty, with Beijing garnering 44 votes, while the largest city in Kazakhstan received 40 votes.

A pending draft law on the Piraeus Port Organization aims to pave the way for the submission of binding offers for a 51% stake of the Piraeus port by three candidate investors participating in the second phase of the tender (COSCO, AMP Terminals Maersk, ICTSI).