News archive of April 2018

The deep-water offshore construction of the first line of the TurkStream natural gas pipeline is now complete as the world's largest pipelaying vessel, the Pioneering Spirit, reached the Turkish shore off Kıyıköy in northwest Turkey on April 29.

A delegation from the European Union will visit Turkey in mid-May to discuss a visa-free deal and the issue of refugees, EU sources told state-run Anadolu Agency on April 30.

The opposition İYİ (Good) Party on April 30 vowed to host the “reopening of Wikipedia,” which has been banned in Turkey for over a year, a day after snap elections on June 24.

Supreme Election Board (YSK) Chairman Sadi Güven on April 30 sought to assure the security of ballot boxes ahead of Turkey's upcoming snap election. 

Computer specialists in Bulgaria receive about five and a half times the average salary for hotel and restaurant workers, according to a CITUB report on wage bargaining in 2017.

This is also the difference between the highest and the lowest average salary by sectors - for IT specialists the remuneration is 3150 BGN and for the employed in tourism - 580 BGN.

Greek retail sales by volume fell 0.1 percent in February compared to the same month a year ago after a downwardly revised 0.9 percent increase in January, statistics service ELSTAT said on Monday.

Retail sales were led lower by books, stationary, fuels and lubricants, the data showed.

Greek bank deposits rose in March for a second month in a row, central bank data showed on Monday.

Businesses and household deposits rose to 126.02 billion euros in the previous month from 124.92 billion in February, the Bank of Greece said.

Mirror - Nine missiles fired on Syria in Hama and Aleppo were fired from British and US bases in Jordan, Syrian media has claimed.

The Syrian army has described the strikes as new "aggression" by its enemies, state television said.

But sources in the MOD say there was no involvement in the strikes, which saw missiles strike targets in Aleppo and Homs.

A teenager has been injured after being struck by a bolt of lighting during a storm in the western Turkish province of Denizli on April 29.

CANBERRA, April 27 (Xinhua) -- The Australian Academy of Sciences (AAS) on Friday launched a 10-year study, along with New Zealand's Royal Society Te Aprang, to name and study unknown species, saying a deep knowledge of biodiversity was key.

Time is running out to study Australia's unique species facing extinction, the nation's top scientists warned.