News archive of June 2018

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office on June 29 issued detention warrants for 48 people over their suspected links to the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), by the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen. 

The Ankara Governor's Office has banned the movie screening event of a communist LGBT group which was to be held in the capital city on June 28, citing the ongoing state of emergency in the country as a reason for the ban.

Four people have been detained for firing guns into the air in Istanbul's Sultangazi district after polls closed and initial results started to be announced in Turkey's twin presidential and parliamentary elections on June 24.

Prime Minister Boyko Borisov will present at the Eurogroup today the candidacy of Bulgaria for joining the Eurozone waiting room.

The meeting will discuss the work on the construction of the Economic and Monetary Union, and in particular the themes for the reform of the European stabilization mechanism and the next steps in the construction of the Banking Union.

EU leaders ended a heated debate about handling migration at 4.30am Friday by accepting Italy's demand for more help in handling the burden and agreeing in principle to set up "disembarkation platforms" to process asylum seekers outside the EU and closed processing centres within the EU.

EU leaders also agreed to spend more money helping African countries curb migration.

Scientists already knew that the lowest temperatures ever measured on Earth were on a frozen ice ridge in eastern Antarctica, near the South Pole. But they recently discovered that temperatures there can drop even lower than those previously measured.

According to the NHS, your Body Mass Index (BMI) should sit somewhere between 18.5 and 24.9. Anything over that, and you're overweight.

So something's gone seriously wrong when you're just 14 years old and your BMI is a whopping 100.

The vote of no confidence for the Borisov Cabinet over a failure in the security sector did not succeed to overthrow the government.

Nearly 11.5 million foreigners visited Turkey in the first five months of 2018, the Culture and Tourism Ministry announced on Friday.