News archive of March 2019

Consumer prices in Turkey are expected to rise 19.43 percent year-on-year in March, according to an Anadolu Agency survey.

A Turkish soldier was killed and one other injured in a mortar attack in northwestern Syria, Turkey's Defense Ministry said on March 31.

The 3-billion-euro loan recently drawn by the Government "has the highest cost of Romania's history," the interest being almost 2.2 billion euro, Pro Romania party Chairman and former PM Victor Ponta told a press conference on Sunday. He spoke of the 3-billion-euro loan which the Government, the Finance Ministry took in only one day.

A comedian whose political experience is limited to playing the president on TV is likely to top the first round of voting as Ukrainians go to the polls on March 31.

Turkey's second cargo plane, carrying humanitarian aid for people affected by the deadly hurricane Idai, reached Mozambique on March 30.

Venezuela's foreign minister will visit Turkey on April 1, according to statement by Turkish Foreign Ministry on March 31.

Turkey will attend Bologna Children's Book Fair in Italy between April 1-4, Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry said on March 31.

Some hundred persons protested on Saturday evening in the University Square against the ruling coalition and in support of former National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) chief Laura Codruta Kovesi. Most protesters were on the sidewalk and in the park in front of the National Theatre.

The voting ended for local elections in all 81 provinces across Turkey at 5 p.m. local time (1400GMT) on March 31.

Albania on Saturday reportedly withdrew a decision published in the online version of its government gazette calling for the seizure of properties belonging to members of the ethnic Greek minority in the town of Himara.