News archive of August 2019

Whether the summer tourist season is successful or weaker than in the recent years remains to be seen, but the data for the first days of the most active summer month of August show that 88% of all seaside hotels were occupied on August 3rd, and 68% of the full month is already booked, according to preliminary data from the Institute for Analysis and Evaluation in Tourism.

Vucic addedd that "this is not just the matter of deadline, but about the essence of the future agreement when it comes to Kosovo and Metohija", stressing that the "problem lies in the fact what will be arranged".

The agreement between Turkey and the U.S. to establish a safe zone in northern Syria could be seen as a "very good start," Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has said.

A 5.9 magnitude earthquake was reported near Taiwan today, TASS reported, citing the US Geological Survey.

The earthquake was at a depth of 10 kilometres, with an epicentre 16 kilometres southeast of the city of Suao, on the island's northeast coast, BTA reported.

A 34-year-old British scientist who was found dead at the bottom of a steep ravine on Wednesday on the eastern Aegean island of Ikaria, most probably died as a result of a fall rather than foul play, an expert said on Thursday.

Firefighter squads have succeeded in containing two forest fires threatening residential areas in southwestern Muğla and Mediterranean Antalya provinces.

Bayram Yılmaz was only 10 when he lost his arms and an eye after stepping on a landmine planted in the southeastern border province of Şırnak's Uludere district. But undaunted by his injuries, Yılmaz became a well-known national athlete with an array of medals he has won for Turkey.

Turkey's southern resort city and tourist hotspot of Antalya hosts many renowned celebrities every year.

A draft bill introduced by the recently elected center-right government calling for the abolition of a ban on law enforcement authorities from entering campus grounds signals the "rebirth" of Greece's universities, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said during a debate in Parliament on the new legislation on Thursday.

Turkish authorities took a small, wounded endangered vulture into treatment on Aug. 8.