News archive of October 2023

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli has said the security of Palestine is inseparable from Türkiye's security, condemning the ongoing violence in Gaza and vowing that Türkiye "will not remain silent in the face of such atrocities."

Three people were arrested in the downtown Athens district of Exarchia on Monday night during skirmishes with police on the sidelines of a march in protest at the injury of a 16-year-old girl during clashes that broke out at an anti-fascism concert in the capital's suburb of Neo Iraklio over the weekend.
 

With satellites weighing under 10 kg (22 lb) making up about 90% of today’s satellite launches and some of them not much larger than a smartphone, creating components for them is a major undertaking

Türkiye has given its priority to modernizing the customs union and providing visa liberalization to Turkish nationals, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told the ambassadors of the European Union countries, voicing Ankara's expectation for a positive response from Brussels.

The documentary is a cinematic triumph that pays tribute to a legal legend, a champion of justice, and a humanitarian par excellence, George Bizos

In the capital municipal council WCC-DB, "Spasi Sofia" will have 23 municipal councilors, for GERB-SDS the mandates are 14, "BSP for Bulgaria" has 9 mandates.

"Vazrazhdane" will have 8 municipal councilors in the Sofia municipality, three each will be from "There Is Such a People" and local coalition KOD. One will be the municipal councilor from VMRO.

With channels of communication between Athens and Ankara open due to the agreed summit in Thessaloniki on December 7 in the presence of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Greek government is closely watching his latest statements with concern, as he once again ups the ante with Israel and the West.

This was stated today by the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen.
He told the Security Council that, with the violence in the Syrian conflict, the Syrian people now face the "frightening prospect of a potential wider escalation" following Hamas' attacks on Israel on October 7 and Israeli military retaliation.

The US State Department is donating a 900,000-dollar grant to help Bulgarian society acquire skills to distinguish between false information and disinformation. The project was presented yesterday afternoon in Sofia. The event coincided with the visit of the Deputy Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs at the US State Department, Elizabeth Allen.

The decision was reached after intensive diplomatic engagement by the administration of U.S. President Joseph Biden, an American official told The Times of Israel.