News archive of December 2023

Treasury and Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek has said in a New Year's message that the positive results of the government's economic program will be achieved in 2024.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in a new year's message released on Dec. 31, has expressed his optimism for a transformative year ahead, declaring that Türkiye is set to embark on its "real breakthrough" in 2024.

The US Embassy in Bulgaria and the Bulgarian Embassy in the United States marked the New Year with a harmonious gesture—a joint video greeting sent by Ambassadors Kenneth Merten and Georgi Panayotov.

Day 676 of the invasion of Ukraine. Summary of key events in the last 24 hours:

Israel is prepared to let ships deliver aid to the war-ravaged Gaza Strip "immediately" as part of a proposed sea corridor from Cyprus, the Israeli foreign minister said on Sunday, naming four European countries, including Greece, as potential participants.

Leaders from Türkiye's two largest opposition parties have expressed their dissatisfaction with the lack of clarity surrounding the murder of Sinan Ateş, the former head of the ultra-nationalist group Grey Wolves.

Greeks know Sunday as a day of rest shared with loved ones and have engraved it in tradition through a large reservoir of folk songs that express the grievances and joys of the everyday person. Gazarte, with the help of curator Christos Papamichalis and innovator Andreas Vayas, has selected a series of Greek folk songs that encompass the joy and laziness that is a Greek Sunday.

At the very beginning, Vui referred to the elections and the electoral process.

More complex toilets first appeared nearly a millennium later, in the ancient Minoan civilization on the island of Crete

The U.S. military said Sunday it shot down two anti-ship ballistic missiles fired toward a container ship by Yemen's Houthi rebels in the Red Sea. Hours later, four boats tried to attack the same ship, but U.S. forces opened fire, killing several of the armed crews, the U.S. Central Command said. No one was injured on the ship.