News archive of March 2016

Ahter Kutadgu, the deputy president of Do?an Holding responsible for corporate communication, has slammed false reports on several media outlets which continue to smear the company over unfounded claims over Petrol Ofisi. 

Motorhead's last live recordings before the death of the hard-charging metal band's frontman Lemmy are being turned into a live album.

Amid sweeping security operations and curfews in Turkey's southeast, the country's Air Forces commander has praised the security forces for "not harming civilians during operations against terrorism."

The government tabled a proposal for a parliamentary examination committee to investigate the legality of bank loans given to political parties and media companies, as Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had announced in Parliament during debate on justice issues.

A project to acquire two multi-purpose patrol ships with modular design for the Bulgarian Naval Force will cost BGN 820 M (EUR 419 M), the country's Defence Minister Nikolay Nenchev has said.

Macedonia's junior ruling party, the Democratic Union for Integration, DUI, has abruptly withdrawn support for changes to the criminal code that would give defendants much more time to prepare before charges are raised against them.

Alparslan Çelik, the alleged killer of Oleg Peshkov, the pilot of the Russian jet downed by Turkey on Nov. 24, 2015, according to Moscow, was detained in the Aegean province of ?zmir on March 30. 

Architect Dame Zaha Hadid died aged 65 following a heart attack on Thursday in a Miami hospital, where she was being treated for bronchitis.

The British designer, who was born in Iraq, was the first woman to receive the Royal Institute of British Architects Gold Medal in recognition of her work.

The second hearing of the controversial trial of two prominent Turkish journalists, Can Dündar and Erdem Gül, will be held on April 1, following the first hearing on March 25 where the court ruled the whole trial to be held in secret.

Advanced 4G technologies, dubbed 4.5G technologies, were set to come online in Turkey in the early hours of April 1 after months of preparation, according to the country's communications minister. Mobile internet speed is expected to accelerate by 10 times with the launch of the new technologies.