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A Turkish Airlines passenger jet traveling from Istanbul to New York hit severe turbulence on March 9 as it approached its destination, with 30 people suffering injuries before it landed safely, officials said.

Athens will need to attract an additional 600,000 visitors a year in order to keep its growing hotel sector in business in the foreseeable future, according to hotel market experts and economist Kathimerini has consulted.

This is the level of oversupply seen being created in the capital due to the investments in the pipeline for the next three years.

New worrying signs from Germany are causing concern about the course of tourism in Greece this year, as holiday market experts at European research company GfK say that the number of bookings from Greece's biggest market posted a big annual drop in January.

The government has released its revised plan on the implementation on the church-state agreement agreed to by PM Alexis Tsipras and Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece, following a meeting between Education, Research, and Religious Affairs Minister Kostas Gavroglu and the church's committee on dialogue with the state.

The Interior Ministry has launched a public campaign across the country to raise awareness on protecting pedestrians in traffic.

An internationally renowned diver became the first Turkish woman to dive without air tanks in Antarctica on Feb. 5.

An Istanbul court has decided 12 pilots and flight attendants to be paid compensation for being laid off after they became members of a new labor union.

The head of the Department for Emergency Situations (DSU), secretary of state Raed Arafat, on Tuesday stated in Constanta that a project is currently being developed to train dispatchers of the ambulance, emergency and firefighting services for a "fully integrated" dispatch system.

Erol Bilgin has high hopes. His camel, Kara Elmas (Black Diamond), might not have won the beauty contest the day before, but it might well fare better in the main event, the wrestling competition.