Commander-in-chief

Greece's parliament on Jan. 22 elected the first woman president in the country's history, a senior judge with an expertise in environmental and constitutional law.

A cross-party majority of 261 MPs voted in favour of 63-year-old Ekaterini Sakellaropoulou, parliament chief Costas Tassoulas said.

The Head of State and Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Rumen Radev will be acquainted with the analysis of the preparation, the army order and the discipline in the Bulgarian Army and the structures of the direct subordination of the Minister of Defense during the school year 2018.

Authorities envisaged for the president in amendments proposed for a constitutional change were revised by a parliamentary constitutional commission, as the 21-article amendment draft was reduced to 18 articles with the latest revisions proposed by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on late Dec. 28. 

Chief of Defense Gen Constantin Popov is resigning, Focus News Agency reports.

Popov, in office since February, has cited the need to give President-elect Rumen Radev an opportunity to name the military officer who will take the post senior position in the Bulgarian Armed Forces.

Serbia's Defence Ministry told BIRN that special forces of the Serbian Army will hold a joint tactical exercise in Serbia with Russian airborne units, most likely in the second half of this year.

The Turkish Prime Minister will have the final word on whether the Chief of General Staff will be tried by civilian courts for incidents and decisions related to his position, according to a new draft bill sent to Parliament by the government.

The map titled “ISIL Ambition, projected 2016” was exposed during a testimony by U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and Chairman of Joint Chief of Staff General Martin Dempsey before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Sept. 16, 2014.

BELGRADE - A delegation of the Serbian Armed Forces, headed by Chief-of-staff General Ljubisa Dikovic, conferred with their colleagues in the Czech Republic on the bilateral military cooperation.