News archive of January 2016

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev is due to discuss opportunities of drawing investment from Brazil and Argentian during his visit to the countries next week.

The issue of ‘evicting’ any member-state from the Schengen area was neither raised nor discussed, European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos said on Friday speaking at the Economist’s ‘The World in 2016 Gala Dinner’ in Athens.

Unknown individuals on Friday midnight threw about ten Molotov cocktails at the house of Greek State Minister Alekos Flambouraris.

Two cars parked outside the house of the minister were burned, while a window and the front door were also damaged.

Fire Service rushed to the point and put out the fire.

Working mothers with young children will be able to work part-time according to a new regulation on flexible working options, with the resulting labor gap filled by "rented workers," whose employment contracts will be terminated upon the mothers' return to work. 

Foreign investors and diplomats have for the last few weeks been wondering about the possibility of a snap election in Turkey in 2016. This is not a natural situation, as Turkey just had its last general election in November 2015.

Turkey's insistence on the Syrian Democratic Union Party (PYD) not getting an invitation to participate in the Geneva peace talks has made an already messy situation even messier. Yet it is understandable.

Our fun-loving, smiling, and entertaining nature was our best feature? 

We are losing our smiling face that made others smile, the feature that attracted millions of tourists to our country, the feature that made us "us."

Jan. 27 is designated by the United Nations as International Holocaust Remembrance Day and coincides with the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by Soviet troops during World War II.

The day was marked in Ankara last week with a ceremony attended by EU Minister Volkan Bozk?r, members of Turkey's Jewish community and foreign diplomats.

The other day, President Tayyip Erdo?an spoke to a large crowd at a big hall in Ankara. The audience was made up of representatives of some 250 nongovernmental organizations, but specifically ones that seemed to be sympathetic to Erdo?an's cause. To them, and to the cameras, the President announced the new goal for Turkey: A new constitution with a "presidential system." 

There are 500,000 paper collectors in this country who hit the road every day, rain or shine, pulling their handcarts to make a living. They have all had tough lives, and continue to do so.

These people have escaped war, oppression, poverty and moved to the big city, collecting waste paper on the streets to survive. These people earn 30 kuru? per one kilogram of paper.