News archive of November 2017

The Turkish government is dissatisfied with the information provided by the United States with regards to the content, purpose, deadline and transparency of arms support provided by the Pentagon to the Syrian Kurds, according to assessments made in Ankara.

Turkish-Iranian businessman Reza Zarrab on Nov. 30 told jurors in a federal court in Manhattan that he met with representatives of an Indian company in 2012 to discuss moving Iranian funds out of India.

France has found traces of radioactive cesium on mushrooms imported from Russia, the head of French nuclear regulator ASN said on Thursday, quoted by Reuters. 

Unemployment in Bulgaria in October 2017 was 6.1 per cent, again below the European Union average, which that month was 7.4 per cent, EU statistics agency Eurostat said on November 30, Independent Balkan News Agency reported.

Wednesday was another victory lap for Yanis Varoufakis on his seemingly endless European book tour.

The adjustment of property rates used for tax purposes (known as "objective values") has been put off till March, as the Finance Ministry has not managed to bring them in line with actual market prices, nor will it implement the plan for the creation of 75 local committees to determine the rates.

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli urged main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu to hand over the documents regarding the offshore transactions of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s close circles, criticizing the CHP leader of “exploiting the situation.”

The United States warned North Korea’s leadership will be “utterly destroyed” if war breaks out but its call for nations to cut ties with Pyongyang was rejected by Moscow while Beijing sidestepped talk of an oil embargo.

This will happen during the inter-governmental conference, the agency said.

Tanjug's sources in Brussels said that consent of all 28 EU members is still awaited, and that whether two or three new chapters would be opened now depends on this.

The Public Prosecution Service in The Hague has opened an inquiry into the possible ‘assisted suicide’ of Slobodan Praljak, who died after saying he had taken poison in court during his verdict.