News archive of June 2019

A Turkish court on June 28 sentenced a group of seven gendarmerie officers and prosecutors over the 2014 case of National Intelligence Organization (MİT) trucks stopped illegally near the Turkish-Syrian border.

The Turkish Treasury will repay debt of 51.4 billion Turkish liras ($8.9 billion) in July-September, the Treasury and Finance Ministry announced on June 28.

Turkey's Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BDDK) on June 28 approved the purchase of private lender Denizbank by the Emirates NBD Bank PJSC (ENBD) of United Arab Emirates. 

Athens does not consult with the ethnic Turkish minority in its northeast on the group's own affairs, a Greek political party garnering overwhelming support from the minority said on Jue 28.

Sibiu, June 29 /Agerpres/ - President Klaus Iohannis stated, on Saturday, that he wishes to remain President of Romania and not become President of the European Council. "I am the President of Romania and I want to remain President of Romania, not of the European Council.

Turkish Red Crescent on June 28 lauded the aid efforts of the United Nations in the Idlib region, the northwest of civil war-torn Syria.

Bucharest, June 29 /Agerpres/ - Prime Minister Viorica Dancila, ad-interim chair of the Social Democrat Party (PSD), stated, on Friday evening, that it is excluded for her to resign as head of the Government if she is not elected in the Social Democrats' Congress on Saturday as chair of the political formation, adding that such an approach would mean blackmailing her party colleagues.

The third Bosphorus International Conference on Cyberpolitics, Cybersecurity and International Relations kicked off on June 28 in Istanbul.

Turkey's youth and sports minister attended the European Sports and Culture Festival (ASKFEST), which kicked off on June 28 in Germany's northwestern city of Hamm.

Sitting in her sleek office with an immaculately polished grand piano, Milasinovic remembers when things were very different only a few years ago. "The 1990s were a very difficult time for Serbia," she says.