News archive of April 2019

A Turkish firm based in the Aegean province of İzmir has created a new farm fish species by crossbreeding common dentex (Dentex dentex) and pink dentex (Dentex gibbosus).

Speaking for Prva TV in Belgrade on Tuesday, he added:

The Constitutional Court on Tuesday rejected Nihad Bojadzic's appeal against verdicts under which he was sentenced to a total of 15 years in prison for crimes committed in 1993 during the war in Jablanica and in the village of Trusina, near Konjic.

The Constitutional Court described Bojadzic's appeal as "unfounded".

Inverted tulips, which grow in mountainous regions of Anatolia in the spring and are called "crying bride" by locals, offer a visual feast with their red and yellow colors.

Turkey's Environment and Urbanization Ministry will evaluate ongoing constructions in Istanbul and make sure relevant precautions are taken if they see any risks.

A day after he said that the officially sanctioned flare-throwing Easter tradition, which cost a cameraman's life Sunday, could not be stopped because it was in the city inhabitants' "DNA," the mayor of the southwestern city of Kalamata now concedes that there's no way the city council will sanction the staging of this event in the future.

According to it, Belgrade and Pristina "agreed to press ahead with their efforts to implement existing agreements and to engage constructively in the dialogue for the normalization of relations, through the EU, with the aim of reaching a comprehensive and final agreement."

The National Education minister Ecaterina Andronescu on Tuesday said in central Targu Mures that in the near future the ministry will focus on turning all vocational schools into dual vocational ones and that by the future Education Law the technical high schools are to be turned into dual technical high schools.

He added that we are in a much better position than some others, but are nonetheless facing a difficult time and many problems.

SYRIZA's poor polling numbers and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' decision to make a strong shift to the centre-left is causing fissures along with backstabbing between comrades who are anxious about the outcome of the 26 May European Parliament election and even more about the general election, as a large number of current MPs will almost certainly lose their seats.