Western culture

Hence, we did not only aim to "fill a gap in the field"  - no such volume existed at the time ­ but to above all provide comprehensive empirical analysis that would possibly serve both practitioners engaged with, and in, the region, and academics alike.

This is how Balkanizing Europeanization: Fight against Corruption and Regional Relations in the Western Balkans came about.

The last ten years have seen the former Soviet republic make a major economic shift towards the EU - but the hoped-for Europeanization of the political class has stubbornly failed to materialize.

Greece has ranked fourth among 34 European countries in terms of the percentage of their populations that consider religion a key component of their national identity, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in 2015-17 and published on Monday.

Thirty percent of self-described hodjas, or Islamic clerics, have failed a religion exam in the southern Turkish city of Adana.

A local award ceremony for the restoration of the Kılıç Ali Paşa Hamam, which won the EU Prize for Cultural Heritage/Europa Nostra Awards in 2017 in the category of conversation, is set to take place on April 12 in Istanbul.

Bulgaria will be represented by the specially created group "Equinox" in this year's Eurovision Song Contest.

The song selected by the jury is called Bones, and the performers are Zhana Bergendorf, Vladimir Mihaylov, George Simeonov-Jay, Johnny Manuel and Trey Campbell. Composer of the song is Borislav Milanov.

‘The Limits of Westernization: A Cultural History of America in Turkey’ by Perin E. Gürel (Columbia University Press, 273 pages, $49)

On his last day in Greece, US President Barack Obama posted a video on his Facebook page from his walk on the Acropolis and the Museum, expressing the significance of the contribution of ancient Greece to western civilisation. He wrote on his page: “On my last overseas trip as president, I finally had the opportunity to visit Greece and take in the beautiful history of this country.

"Manifesting one's own identity and distinctness is an action of citizenship," epic German thinker Hannah Arendt famously said.

This applies also to states and people. Manifesting one's identity and distinctness is actually an action of universal citizenship and the hallmark of nation-states.

The Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia, NUNS, announced a protest for Monday under the slogan "Female journalists do not kneel/PM keep the promise", urging Vucic to fire Gasic immediately.