News archive of February 2017

A moderate undersea quake, measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale, struck the area northwest of Pilio shortly before 3 p.m., seismologists said.

The quake was felt in the broader area including the city of Volos.

There were no reports of any injuries or damage.
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Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has signed a cooperation agreement with Sikorsky, which is part of Lockheed Martin, to make various helicopter components, it said in a statement on Feb. 28, Anadolu Agency has reported. 

A Turkish lawyer who claimed to be Jesus Christ has sued his family members after they rejected his claims and insulted him, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Turkey's military has made a statement on a recent debate over a report in daily Hürriyet that was also heavily criticized by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. 

The military said on Feb. 28 that recent "unfounded and ill-intentioned" criticism toward Chief of Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar aimed at casting a shadow on the Turkish Armed Forces' (TSK) struggle against terrorism.

The Turkish military said on Feb. 28 that recent "unfounded and ill-intentioned" criticism toward Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar aimed to cast a shadow on the Turkish Armed Forces' (TSK) struggle against terrorism. 

Greece and its lenders resumed long-stalled talks in Athens on Tuesday about reforms Greece needs to adopt to keep bailout funds flowing and the crisis-hit nation financially afloat.

Turkcell, Turkey's biggest mobile operator, and Vodafone, one of top three mobile operators active in Turkey, were honored for their humanitarian work in supporting Syrian refugees at a major sector conference late on Feb. 26.

The award came at the GSM Association's (GSMA) Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.     

Bank deposits are at their lowest levels since 2001, according to the Bank of Greece (BoG). The figures released by the BoG revealed that deposit outflows of Greek depositors amounted to 1.567 billion euros in January. The amount of deposits in December of 2016 were up by 2.972 billion euros.

Hotels in Istanbul experienced the biggest decline in both revenue per available room (RevPAR) and average daily rate (ADR), a measure of the average rate paid for rooms sold, among all European destinations in January, as the city's hotel occupancy rates continued to decline, fresh data showed. 

The Turkish army has established a temporary base in a strategically important point of the newly captured al-Bab, located in northern Syria.