Executive Board

Police detained Cumhuriyet Foundation Executive Board President Akın Atalay on Nov. 11 at Istanbul's Atatürk Airport after he landed from Germany, as a part of the investigation into columnists and executives at Turkish daily Cumhuriyet.

Turkish police have arrested the Editor-in-Chief of daily Cumhuriyet and others from the newspaper, Hürriyet Daily News reports, citing local media outlets.

State-run Anadolu Agency also reports raids have been made into the homes of Executive Board Chairman Akın Atalay and Güray Öz.

Turkish police have detained the editor-in-chief of daily Cumhuriyet, state media reported early on Oct. 31, while CNN Türk reported that 13 warrants have been issued for the newspaper's journalists and executives.  

The DSS Executive Board will "automatically" expel those who do not respect the decision to remove Djordje Vukadinovic from the party's parliamentary club.

A statement carried by the agency Beta on Wednesday said that this decision of the Executive Board must now be confirmed by the opposition party's Presidency.

UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova has received "death threats' over her supposed reservations about a resolution that would only highlight holy sites in Jerusalem as Muslim and not Jewish.

"The director general has received death threats and her protection has had to be reinforced," Carmel Shama Cohen, Israel's Ambassador to the UN, has told Israeli public radio, according to AFP.

While traveling to Antalya on May 3 for a "sequencing conference," speculations were abundant that the prime minister might step down at any moment. There was such an expectation for some time because of an alleged widening rift between the president and the prime minister.

The tensions between Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu and his party reached a peak when the 50-seat Central Decision and Executive Board (MKYK) of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) ruled to remove his authority to appoint provincial officials on April 29.

The National Bank of Serbia (NBS) Executive Board on Thursday decided to keep the key policy rate unchanged at 4.25 percent.

International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde on April 3 told Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras that "we are still a good distance away" in negotiations for a new deal for hard-up Athens.

IMF leader Christine Lagarde on Sunday responded to Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ letter of April 2 regarding the wikileaks documents that revealed a conversation between top two IMF officials, Poul Thomsen and Delia Velculescu, showing that IMF was planning to push Greece to the brink of a credit event so as Greece would accept the strict measures it proposed.