Security

Police have apprehended a 36-year-old suspect and identified two additional individuals, aged 28 and 32, in connection with discharging a firearm into the air following a raid at a Roma camp in Megara, west of Athens.

The Czech police released a video from the camera on the uniform of the police officer who was chasing the murderer from Prague, who committed a massacre from the roof of the Charles University yesterday.
Let us remind you that D.K. killed at least 14 people, injuring at least 24 people.

Police have made a second arrest in relation to Monday's deadly car chase in which a policeman lost his life in the western Athenian suburb of Nikaia.

The 29-year-old police officer died after his motorcycle collided with a patrol car during a pursuit of suspected car thieves.

In the aftermath of Thursday's attacks on riot police in Renti, authorities are investigating at least another four individuals, in addition to the 18-year-old suspect already apprehended for injuring a police officer.

These individuals, reportedly young and allegedly linked to an organized fan group of Olympiakos in Western Attica, are subjects of interest for law enforcement.

Hundreds of police officers and special guards held a protest rally on Monday at the Sub-Directorate for Riot Police in Goudi, Athens, after the severe injury of their 31-year-old colleague last Thursday, with a request to not be responsible for guarding sports fields.

Fan violence at a volleyball match last week again demonstrated that most measures announced in recent years to deal with the phenomenon remain unimplemented, but even those that were have proven ineffective. 

Türkiye stations a total of 60,000 military personnel along its 3,000-kilometer land border, a Defense Ministry official has revealed.

The ministry's planning and operations department head, Brig. Gen. Serkan Bircan, made a presentation to a parliamentary commission on border security in a bid to address concerns related to irregular migration and refugees.

Türkiye's Central Bank has announced additional steps under its plan to continue to simplify and improve the existing micro- and macroprudential framework.

The bank on Oct. 26 delivered a 500 basis points hike in its policy rate, the one-week repo auction rate, from 30 percent to 35 percent. The rate hike, which was the fifth time in a row, was in line with economists' expectations.

We can see it daily in the streets: The traffic police are completely absent. 

The mission of the traffic police division should be redesigned from scratch in order to be able to respond to modern-day needs, and to be able to intervene, quickly and efficiently, where necessary, using the new technological tools that monitor traffic and confirm violations.

We are far behind.

The government is offering small private investors another chance to enter an interest-bearing bond auction, in the context of Wednesday's six-month treasury bill issue.