Taxi

The payment of the fifth phase of the cheap state loans program known as the "Deposit To Be Returned" begins on Wednesday for 361,888 enterprises that the Finance Ministry deems have made the cut.

A probe by the Hellenic Police (ELAS) into a vitriol attack last month on a 34-year-old woman in Kallithea, southern Athens, is focusing on the testimony of a taxi driver who leased his cab to the suspected assailant and the latter's calls to the cab company, Kathimerini understands.

A taxi driver who kicked a pregnant woman in labor out of his cab in the Marmara province of Kocaeli's Çayırova district has been sentenced to house arrest.

The driver, identified only by the initials M.B., took Aisha Hashem, a Syrian woman whose water had just broken, into his cab but later kicked her out after she showed signs of labor.

The union representing Attica taxi drivers, SATA, has proposed that a cabbie be deprived of his license after forcing an injured woman out of his car on Thursday because he feared getting his vehicle dirty.

Describing the driver's behavior as "not only unprofessional but inhuman," SATA called on the Transport Ministry to withdraw his license and ban him from driving a taxi.

Turkish police and municipal security officers seek to find a total of 120 taxi drivers who have scammed tourists.

A taxi driver in a viral video showing her crying after being paid a bill by two Iranian women in Istanbul has said the incident ended well with the help of good-hearted people. 

Iranian director Jafar Panahi's film "Three Faces" has won the Best Film award at the 55th International Antalya Film Festival.

At 12.30 on 2nd of October, a taxi driver sought the help of police officers. He explained to them that shortly before that he had dropped off a client at Dimitrovgrad bus station, sharing his fears that perhaps the woman was a victim of fraud because she was carrying a lot of money and constantly talking on the phone, the Ministry of Interior announced on 3rd of October.

The new film by Iran's Jafar Panahi, who is banned from leaving Iran, has premiered to a standing ovation at the Cannes film festival, with a seat left symbolically empty for the dissident director.

Coming out of Athens International Airport, the Dutch couple was excited about visiting the Greek islands after a couple of days in the city. Instead of walking to the metro station, they decided to splash out on a cab to their hotel in the capital. They stood patiently in line at the cabstand, waiting for their turn. "Welcome, welcome!" the taxi driver greeted them with gusto.