News archive of September 2018

Turkish authorities have banned a protest vigil of the "Saturday Mothers" marking the forced disappearances of hundreds of people in the last decades. Click through for the story in photos...

The protest on 10 August in Bucharest "must be handled with all responsibility", said the Social democrat Senator Ecaterina Andronescu on Saturday, at the ruling party, PSD, reunion of the National Executive Committee (CExN).

She said that the social democrats should rule for both the ones who have voted them and the ones who haven't, as well as for the Romanians abroad.

Arson experts were busy over the weekend investigating the cause of a fire on one of the vehicle decks of the Eleftherios Venizelos ferry. The investigation got under way after firefighters were able to fully extinguish the last traces of the fire on Saturday.

Turkey's exports from January to August recorded a 5.3-percent annual hike, Turkish Exporters' Assembly (TIM) announced on Sept. 1.

Turkish Foreign Ministry on Sept. 1 condemned the U.S. over its decision to end funding for the UN Palestine refugee agency.

Turkey's Ministry of Trade has said it launched probes into companies that hiked their prices "abnormally" amid currency volatility.

Acclaimed Greek jazz pianist George Kontrafouris celebrates the 10th anniversary of his Baby Trio band with a concert at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) on Sunday, September 2. Since it was formed in 2008, Baby Trio has gone through several incarnations and a parade of different members.

Greece has become a "safe haven" for Turkish criminals like the eight servicemen that fled to Greece after the botched coup in 2016, according to the country's foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglou.

Katerina Papacosta, a former conservative minister, recently attacked ruling SYRIZA during a speech in Parliament saying, "you are not serious, you are irresponsible, get over your leftist delusions." She sounded different on Friday.

The Greek Police (ELAS) has proven itself capable on numerous occasions of solving even the most complicated of crimes. This was more than evident in the swift arrest of the suspects accused of causing the death of a young student on central Athens's Philopappou Hill last month while trying to mug him, an incident that shocked public opinion.