News archive of September 2018

Nearly 450,000 applicants have applied for paid military service in Turkey.      

Greece's extended economic crisis has resulted into faster demographic slowdown than previously expected, Bob Traa, the first IMF representative after the country signed its first bailout program, claims in an article published in Kathimerini on Sunday, adding that the trend means that previous projections of future Greek GDP may be too optimistic.

Turkish security forces detained at least 94 ISIL suspects across Turkey in August, including foreign nationals. 

Turkey on Sept. 1 voiced concern over violent clashes between rival militias in the Libyan capital Tripoli that began earlier this week. 

The EUR 25k trophy of the Golden Stag International Festival was won by Inis Neziri of Albania, and it was handed by Luminita Dobrescu, the first singer of Romania who grabbed this trophy back in 1969, at the second edition of the festival.

The 1st Prize of the contest was won by Olivier Kaye (Belgium) and was handed by Gabriel Garko, a special guest of the festival.

The union of public university professors, POSDEP, will be on strike on Monday and Tuesday, the first two days of the September exam period, in what it says is a warning of more possible action to come if professors' demands are not addressed.

The United States and Greece have common strategic interests and ambitions regarding the Western Balkan and Eastern Mediterranean regions, the American ambassador to Athens, Geoffrey Pyatt, says in an interview published in Kathimerini's Sunday edition, a week before the September 8 opening of the annual Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF), which this year hosts the US as the honored country.

Turkey is determined to further enhance bilateral relations with Kyrgyzstan while rescuing it from "the shadow of FETÖ", President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Sept.2.      

The US government is requesting for the "Beatles of ISIS" squad, one of them of Cypriot origin, to be moved to Guantanamo Bay, a move that could possibly make them eligible for the death penalty.