News archive of September 2018

Currency manipulations aim to cast doubt on Turkey's strong and solid economy, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Sept. 2. 

On the occasion of Greece's exit from the third adjustment program, it is worth evaluating its results. The first finding is that the program failed to achieve its ultimate objective: market re-access.

An Ankara court on Sept.1 remanded in custody three suspects over the U.S. Embassy drive-by shooting on Aug. 20 in the capital Ankara, a judicial source said.      

Eurozone countries have asked for too much from the Greek people in return for international bailout loans, former Eurogroup chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem said in an interview on Dutch television on Saturday.

Authorities in Greece say a fire on a ferry connecting the mainland to the island of Crete has been put out after raging for three days.

Bucharest Mayor, Vice President of the ruling Social Democratic Party (PSD) Gabriela Firea asserted on Saturday she has a "tense" relation with the party's national leader Liviu Dragnea, adding that there is a "breach" between them because the PSD chairman wouldn't "give up" the Interior Minister Carmen Dan.

The Minister said this on the 79th Anniversary of the World War II outbreak.

Tributes poured in over the weekend for Alice Yotopoulos-Marangopoulos, the country's first female university rector, a leading criminologist and former president of the International Alliance of Women, who was laid to rest on Saturday in a civil funeral. She was 101.

Lawyers for George Papadopoulos, a Greek-American aide in the Donald Trump presidential campaign, said in a court filing on Friday that he revealed to the Greek foreign minister in May 2016 that Russia had "dirt" on Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.

He claimed the meeting took place a few days before Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Greece.

Turkey's foreign minister called for a new chapter in testy diplomatic ties with Greece on Saturday, even as he berated the neighboring country for providing a safe haven for Turkish "criminals."

Eight Turkish commandos are seeking asylum in Greece after commandeering a helicopter to flee Turkey following a failed coup attempt against President Tayyip Erdogan in July 2016.