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U.S. President Barack Obama and Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen discussed the outlook for economic growth and progress from Wall Street reform during a meeting April 11, the White House said.

Obama met with Yellen in the Oval Office "as part of an ongoing dialogue on the state of the economy," it said in a statement.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on April 7 warned the European Union that Ankara would not implement a key deal on reducing the flow of migrants if Brussels failed to fulfil its side of the bargain.

The European Central Bank is willing to ease monetary policy further, according to three top officials including its president, who echoed his U.S. peers' concerns about an uncertain outlook for the global economy.

This year would be another challenging one for the ECB, Mario Draghi wrote in its annual report released on April 7.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdo?an spoke the other day on Turkey's ongoing war with the PKK, the armed and outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party. "We will continue fighting until the last weapon is silenced," said, ruling out the option of renewed talks with the terrorist group. He explicitly noted:

A historic castle in the northwestern province of Edirne's Yayla village, which was registered in 2012 by the Edirne Cultural and Natural Heritage Preservation Board, has been abandoned and slowly destroyed by nature and treasure hunters. The architectural structure is thought to be a Byzantine castle or an observation station.
 

It would come as no surprise to anyone if we were to conjecture that President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an is not one of Washington's favorite world leaders at present. 

Ziraat Bank CEO Hüseyin Ayd?n said foreign hackers recently launched a number of cyber-attacks against Turkish banks by creating e-mail traffic. 

Such attacks were made against the entire banking system, not only against Ziraat, noted Ayd?n, who is also the president of the Banks' Association of Turkey.

Ziraat Bank CEO Hüseyin Ayd?n has refuted some reports that claim "some banking transactions were audited in the bank's New York branch upon some concerns about the violation of money laundering or compliance regulations. 

Bulgaria's project for building a natural gas hub on its Black Sea coast is expected to be finalized in a month and a half, Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Donchev has said.

Iraq will not resume pumping crude through a Kurdish pipeline to Turkey unless it reaches a financial agreement with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), the Iraqi oil minister said on March 22.