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The United States was a "true mediator" between Athens and its international creditors at the peak of the Greek crisis and helped prevent the country's ouster from the eurozone on several occasions, Kathimerini's Washington correspondent, Katerina Sokou, said during a panel discussion on the subject of "The US Role in the Greek Debt Crisis."

Hasan Sayın, one of the controlling shareholders of Turkish bank Bank Asya who was among 40 businessmen arrested over Gülenist links, has said in testimony that a total of 30 million Turkish Liras he transferred to a school in the United States was intended for the "prosperity" of his daughter and other female students studying there, adding that he had been defrauded by the outlawed Fethullahi

Property prices in Turkey increased by 18 percent last year, faster than anywhere in the world, according to a fresh ranking.

The Knight Frank Global House Price Index increased by 3 percent in 2015, up from 2.3 percent in 2014, with Turkey topping the list of 55 housing markets. 

“If necessary, we will issue parallel liquidity and California-style IOU’s, in an electronic form. We should have done it a week ago,” was the quote attributed to FinMin Yanis Varoufakis on Sunday, after the victorious “no” vote.

In addition to attending my friends’ birthday party and meeting up with Turkey economists, I also had some time for sightseeing in London. Other than pub crawls, I visited the Charles Dickens Museum at 48 Doughty Street, which was home to the novelist from 1837 to 1839.