News archive of February 2017

A police officer was arrested on Monday on suspicion of leaking investigation information to a Moroccan-Dutch criminal organization, NRC reports. According to the newspaper, the officer in question is of Moroccan descent and works at the so-called Safety and Security Department, tasked with providing security to the royal family and threatened politicians like Geert Wilders, among others.

In a speech to Parliament's economic affairs committee on Tuesday, Finance Minister Tsakalotos said Greece is hoping for a provisional agreement with the country's international creditors by March 20.

Ankara wants to work with its allies to capture the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) bastion of Raqqa in Syria, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Feb. 28.

However, Erdoğan once again rejected any involvement by the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), and its armed wing, the Peoples' Protection Units (YPG), which Turkey considers as terrorist groups.

An exhibition about Croatia and Bulgaria will be opened next Monday in Sofia, revealing little-known aspects of ties between the two peoples during the 19th and 20th century.

Portuguese singer Teresa Salgueiro will be on stage for the first time in Ankara. 

Best known as the lead singer of Madredeus from 1987 until 2007, Salgueiro also participated as lead actress in a feature film by Wim Wenders, "Lisbon Story."

For the second time this month, residents and visitors at Souda Bay in northwestern Crete have the rare treat of being able to admire the awe-inspiring bulk of the USS George H.W. Bush supercarrier from close up as it is docked at the NATO port of Marathi.

Doggerland was an area of land, now lying beneath the southern North Sea, that connected Great Britain to mainland Europe during and after the last Ice Age. It was then gradually flooded by rising sea levels around 6,500–6,200 BCE.

The Ankara Municipality has taken wide measures against potential diffusion of asbestos to the air as part of the dismantling work for a decades-old factory in central Ankara, which is certified of bearing 350 tons of the carcinogenic material inside its building. 

The Ankara Municipality has taken wide measures against potential diffusion of earth flax to the air as part of the dismantling work for a decades-old factory in central Ankara, which is certified of bearing 350 tons of the carcinogenic material inside its building. 

The Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (TDF), Greece's biggest film gathering dedicated to fact-finding features, kicks off its 10-day program in the northern port city on Friday, March 3.