News archive of September 2015

Police officer Muhittin Zenit, who had been in contact with a key informant in murder of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, has said he was prevented from giving testimony in the slaying by former police intelligence chiefs Ramazan Akyürek and Ali Fuat Y?lmazer.

Turkey?s Y?ld?r?m Holding has announced it acquired Portuguese Mota-Engil Group?s port management company Tertir Terminais de Portugal and logistics company Mota-Engil Logistica SGPS, which have 275 million euros in equity value. 

Bojan Pajtic on Wednesday confirmed the authenticity of a transcript of a conversation that appeared online, and said it was "proof he was being wiretapped."

Pajtic is the leader of the Democratic Party (DS) and head of the provincial government of Vojvodina.

A video showing 100m Olympic Champion Usain Bolt slapping a dancer’s ass at Miami nightclub ‘FDR’ has gone viral. The dancer started grinding up on the fastest man on the planet during rapper Lil Wayne’s birthday and he was quick…to let his palm fly…

Turkish warplanes struck 24 targets in a bombardment of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) positions in the southeastern province of Hakkari late Sept. 29, a day after three security personnel and one civilian were killed in attacks. 

Turkish warplanes struck 24 targets in a bombardment of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) positions in the southeastern province of Hakkari late on Sept. 29, the military said.

The targets destroyed in border towns of Yüksekova and Da?l?ca were mainly weapon emplacements and shelters, the army said in a statement on Sept. 30. 

Greece’s population decreased by 21,592 in 2014, according to the Hellenic Statistical Authority (EL.STAT). More specifically, there was a decline in birth rates and a rise in deaths for 2014, according to the service’s data.

The effect of an interest rate rise by the U.S. Federal Reserve will roil markets but should not be overrated, Deputy Turkish Prime Minister Cevdet Y?lmaz said Sept. 30.

Speaking to Anadolu Agency during a visit to New York, Y?lmaz said the world economy had been affected by the possibility of a Fed rate hike, the ongoing slowdown in the Chinese economy and weak commodity prices.

At its meeting on Wednesday, the Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (KEVR) adopted the planned decrease of the prices of natural gas and heating from October 1.

The price of natural gas will drop by 14.26 % on Thursday, meaning that the total decrease since the beginning of the year will exceed 30 %, private bTV station reports.

President of the German Bundesbank Jens Weidmann said deflationary concerns in the Eurozone had subsided in a press conference. At the same time preliminary data published by Eurostat indicated that the consumer price index show a -0.1% deflation.