News archive of November 2017

Turkey’s DenizBank said on Nov. 30 it did not have any dealings with the shipping group owned by Turkish-Iranian businessman Reza Zarrab, who has pleaded guilty and is testifying in a United States federal court that he helped Iran get around U.S. sanctions.

One of Britain’s most respected reporters on the Balkan wars of the 1990s has recalled his two encounters, in court and out, with Slobodan Praljak, the war criminal who committed suicide at the Hague Tribunal.

"I'm sorry to hear that the Atlantic Council thinks the US and Serbia have had such bad relations until now, that a historic reconciliation needs to occur," the Serbian minister for EU Integration also said on Wednesday, adding:

The leftist-led government has decided to go ahead and swallow the bitter pill of foreclosures and changes to legislation governing labor unions. Both of these are leading symbols of the anti-systemic movement that gave rise to ruling SYRIZA and therefore make this new resolve extremely significant.

There were clear messages of the United States' commitment to "continue doing all that we can to help Greece emerge successfully from this period of economic difficulty" - including from US President Donald Trump - during Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's visit to Washington in October, US Ambassador in Athens Geoffrey Pyatt said in an exclusive interview with the Athens-Macedonian News Age

Serbian Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin said this on Wednesday, in the first reaction by a Serbian official.

Chinese Vice Premier Ma Kai will visit Ukraine, Greece and Italy from December 4 to 13, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced Thursday.

At the invitation of Ukrainian government, Ma will chair the third meeting of the China-Ukraine Inter-government Cooperation Committee, said Geng Shuang.

If any threat to Turkey is posed from Syria’s Afrin province, where Kurdish militants are dominant, the Turkish military will intervene, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu stated on Nov. 30.

A complaint filed by main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) over the April 16 constitutional referendum was deemed “inadmissible” on Nov. 30.

The Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) of U.S.-based Fethullah Gülen is pulling the strings in the “Zarrab case,” Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ has claimed