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The election calendar of the 2015 Turkish parliamentary elections officially starts on March 10, when the Supreme Election Board will announce the overseas embassies and consulates where Turkish nationals living abroad can cast their votes.

The elections are scheduled to take place on June 7.

Bulgarian pharmaceutical company Huvepharma, owned by businessmen Kiril Domuschiev and Georgi Domuschiev, has made an offer to purchase Turkish ANC Animal Nutrition Center, a veterinary drugs manufacturer and trader.

An opposition MP and former union leader, Janko Vucinic, on Friday announced the formation of a new left-wing party modeled on Greece's Syriza, which will rally the country's "looted and disenfranchised" workers.

A German court has convicted a man of terrorism charges and sentenced him to six years in prison after finding he ran the finances in Europe of the outlawed Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK).
                   

President Klaus Iohannis has promulgated on Friday several laws, among which the one stipulating the Day of Equal Opportunities between women and men, to be on May 8.

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Golden Dawn MP Ilias Kasidiaris on Thursday faced an investigative magistrate in a case involving the secret recording of a conversation with former cabinet secretary Panayiotis Baltakos, a close aide to former Prime Minister Antonis Samaras.

Kasidiaris refused any involvement in the illegal recording which was carried out in November 2013.

Socialist PASOK on Thursday accused new Parliament President Zoi Konstantopoulou of committing an unprecedented institutional misstep during a three-hour press conference she held yesterday.

Two Golden Dawn supporters on Thursday were found guilty of bodily harm by a court in Serres, northeastern Greece, in an attack against a member of anti-capitalist ANTARSYA party carried out in October 2012. Both defendants were sentenced to 12-month prison sentences, suspended for three years.

One of the defendants was former Serres Golden Dawn deputy Nikitas Siois.

Gruevski, who insists that he has nothing with alleged wiretapping of more than 20,000 people, said that a press release issued by his VMRO DPMNE party had been misunderstood and was not calling for violence against government opponents.

A ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy has caused consternation by retweeting an insulting post about former President ?smet ?nönü, one of the founders of the Turkish Republic, triggering reactions even from her own fellow party members.