News archive of July 2018

Officials from the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America will be gathering in Massachusetts for a national meeting.

The organization's 44th Biennial Clergy-Laity Congress is expected to draw delegates from parishes across the country to downtown Boston starting Sunday.

Switzerland has rejected a refugee relocation program proposed by the European Union to relieve the burden on frontier countries like Italy and Greece, local media reported on Sunday.

More than 100 local and foreign visitors have attended the "Nature Sports Festival" in Turkey's southeastern Cilo Mountains region. 

Turkish women's dream run in China ended on July 1 as the United States was crowned the first-ever Volleyball Nations League champion with a 3-2 (17-25, 25-22, 26-28, 25-15, 15-7) victory over a resilient Turkey. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) would continue working for the local elections, which are scheduled to be held in March 2019, expressing his discontent regarding the June 24 election results, where the ruling AKP lost 7 points from its vote percentage, compared to the previous elections.

If the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) fulfills all the commitments it made when signing the name deal in Prespes, northern Greece, it will become the fifth country in the United Nations with a geographical qualifier in its name: after South Africa, the Central African Republic, East Timor (also known as Timor-Leste) and more recently South Sudan, which gained its independence in

Prominent Turkish historian Fuat Sezgin, who passed away at the age of 95 on June 30, was laid to rest in Istanbul on July 1.

The Turkish military on July 1 completed its seventh round of patrolling in the northern Syrian city of Manbij as part of a deal with the U.S.

Main opposition Republican People's Party's (CHP) presidential candidate Muharrem İnce responded to inner-party debates and said he would not step up against CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu for the leadership, adding that he would continue his mission to be "the president of 81 million people."

One policeman was killed and 22 people were injured in a suicide bombing targeting ballot boxes in Iraq's northern Kirkuk province on July 1, according to a local police officer.

A Daesh (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a ballot box warehouse south of the Kirkuk province, police captain Hamed al-Obeidi told Anadolu Agency.