News archive of September 2019

Greek retail sales by volume declined 3.0 percent in July compared to the same month last year after an upwardly revised 2.4 percent rise in June, statistics service ELSTAT said on Monday.
Retail sales were led lower by pharmaceutical products, cosmetics, clothing and footwear, the data showed.

Greek private sector unions will stage a 24-hour strike on Wednesday to protest against changes to labor laws planned by the newly-elected conservative government.
Protesting workers and pensioners are expected to rally and march in central Athens around midday.

Two wounded stray dogs found near the archaeological excavation area of Hattusha, the capital of the Hittite civilization in the Boğazkale district of Çorum, have been adopted by the excavation committee.

The Kahin Tepe excavations in the northern province of Kastamonu's Araç district have unearthed findings such as a grinding stone and ornaments belonging to the Aceramic Neolithic period.

Prolific composer Stamatis Spanoudakis, who has recorded more than 60 albums over his career to date, will be sharing the stage of the Herod Atticus Theater with a string orchestra and choir on Tuesday, October 1, in a charity concert from which the proceeds will go the children's institutions of the Orthodox Metropolitanate of Singapore and South Asia.

The Greek Culture Ministry is putting together an interdisciplinary committee of experts who will be responsible for drawing up a national action plan to tackle the impact of climate change on the country's archaeological sites and historic monuments.

The government plans to introduce legislation that seeks to simplify the repayment of debts by individuals and businesses to tax authorities, social insurance funds and banks.
The underlying principle of the new framework will be that the number of installments will depend on the income but also on the period when the debt became overdue.

Three people were killed and at least eleven were injured, four severely, on Sept. 30 when a public bus rammed into a bus stop in the capital Ankara's Mamak district.

The head of the Amis du Palais de Tokyo (Friends of Tokyo Palace) Bernard Chenebault has been fired for calling for the assassination of Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, TASS reported.

According to Saturday's newspaper, Chenebault made a comment on Facebook regarding the emotional speech of 16-year-old Greta Thunberg at the UN General Assembly session:

The Kotsanas Museum of Ancient Greek Technology pays tribute to the great Serbian-American engineer, inventor and futurist Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), who, among other discoveries, revolutionized how we generate and distribute electricity.