News archive of September 2016

A specialized sergeant was killed and another soldier was wounded in an armed clash between Turkish security forces and outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in the Pervari district of the southeastern province of Siirt on Sept. 1. 

As authorities were expected to announce the results of a tender for four private nationwide TV licenses, conservative New Democracy opposition on Thursday slammed the process as a government attempt to deflect public attention from domestic problems.

A group of 50 people will go on hunger strike until they receive news on Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the leader of a Kurdish-issue focused group announced on Aug. 31 in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır.

The Finance Ministry has said it expects a BGN 3.3 B consolidated budget surplus as of the end of August.

The figure amounts to 3.7% of the gross domestic product (GDP), compared to a 0.7% surplus over the first eight months of last year.

The EBRD backs the Serbian government efforts to continue reforms, the bank's President Suma Chakrabarti said in Belgrade on Thursday.

He also said that "it would be a great honor to have Serbia in EU."

Aleksandar Vulin says Jean Claude Juncker's letter "makes it considerably more difficult for the government to explain its European orientation to citizens."

According to the readers of Conde Nast Traveller (CNT), Greece is the best country in the world to visit for 2016. The annual ‘Readers’s Travel Awards’ saw Greece voted the top destination among the site’s readers, followed by Italy in second place and the US in 3rd. Here is the complete list:

1. Greece

The Aydın Doğan Foundation hosted a European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) delegation led by former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt in a special reception that was joined by Turkish deputy prime ministers Numan Kurtulmuş, Veysi Kaynak and Mehmet Şimşek, diplomats, civil servants and journalists in Ankara on Aug. 31.

Emily Ratajkowski is head over heals with the beauties of Greece and doesn’t miss a chance to promote the country in the best way possible by sharing photos of her beautiful figure with the backdrop of the Aegean Sea and the views from Crete and Santorini, where she is currently on holidays.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic says he regrets that political leaders of Serbs from Bosnia and the RS have made their decisions "in advance."

Vucic's comment came on Thursday, ahead of the planned meeting in Belgrade.