Political spectrum

Hooded arsonists targeted the headquarters of socialist PASOK with Molotov cocktails late on Sunday, causing no damage or injuries.

According to police, a group of assailants charged at the offices from nearby Exarchia Square, a central anarchist stronghold, and pelted the offices with the firebombs.

The leader of Turkey's main opposition party has claimed that all his family members and party officials are being eavesdropped on, without specifying who is responsible.

An Istanbul district municipality responsible for the area that includes the historic Grand Bazaar wants a say in the management of the market, which has been controlled by its craftsmen for around 555 years, as part of a renewal plan, daily Cumhuriyet has reported.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) head Kemal K?l?çdaro?lu has claimed that Turkey has become a center for terrorist organization "sleeper cells."

The provincial head of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has been missing in the Eastern Anatolian province of Tunceli for more than 24 hours.

Following the disappearance of Hüseyin Zeytin, the CHP's provincial head for Tunceli, a group of 10 CHP members, including the party's provincial deputy head, launched a search party.

BELGRADE - The Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS), movement Dveri and a group of intelectuals signed on Thursday a 10-point agreement on cooperation entitled the Christmas Declaration, whose goal is to get early general elections through activities as the opposition.

Parties, public figures form "patriotic opposition bloc"

BELGRADE -- The Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and the Dveri Movement on Thursday signed a declaration on cooperation and on forming "an opposition bloc."

All political parties wishing to take part in the snap polls on January 25 will have to submit their details, including names and symbols, to the Supreme Court by January 9.

The court is expected to announce on January 14 which parties fulfill the criteria needed to take part in the general elections.

Incidents during local elections; SNS-led coalition wins

BELGRADE -- A coalition gathered around the Progressives (SNS) has won 25 out of the 39 seats in the municipal assembly of Mionica.

These results were announced on Monday by the Municipal Election Commission. This small town in western Serbia went to the polls on Sunday in early local elections.

Arguing that the government has failed to make substantial progress in the peace process, the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has put forth its own proposal aimed at resolving the Kurdish issue in Parliament.