Düsseldorf

Germany's trendy fair town Düsseldorf has been bustling with sea and sail fanatics for the past two weeks. During "Boot," the annual Boat and Sailing Fair, the city is usually packed with Italians, British and, yes, more and more Turks - actually, Turkish yacht producers.

A court in Germany has sentenced a 53-year-old Turkish citizen to three years in jail on charges of "membership of a foreign terror organization" after ruling that he carried out outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) activities in eight different German cities for over a year. 

Spending a weekend in Germany is a mind-opener. It gives any person who is living under the constant news bombardment in Turkey time and space to see the real Europe that is not told to us on pro-government TV stations.

Turkey's Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) has gathered intelligence via imams from 38 countries on the activities of suspected followers of the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, widely believed to be the mastermind of the failed July 15 coup attempt. 

International One Dance Week festival will bring to the audience two events on Thursday and Friday at Boris Hristov House of Culture in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, organizers say.

German security and intelligence forces are conducting nationwide operations to detect terrorist cells, following the revelations that a jihadist group from Dusseldorf was planning large scale attacks across Germany. According to new information, German authorities suspect over 180 people are linked to the Islamic State (IS) and other jihadist groups.

A strike of Lufthansa employees will cancel flights between the Bulgarian capital and the airports in Frankfurt and Munich on Wednesday.

Sofia airport informed that two flights to and from Frankfurt will be cancelled, namely the one departing at 6.40 o'clock (EET) and the one arriving at 13.15 o'clock (EET).

The Bulgarian capital Sofia is the fifth most dangerous city in Europe and the most dangerous in the European Union, a study shows.

Moscow, St Petersburg, Kiev and Belgrade have bottomed the personal safety ranking in a recent report of US think-tank Mercer.

Travel company Thomas Cook will add more than 50 000 airline seats to the airports of Varna and Burgas in 2016, Bulgaria's biggest Black Sea cities, media outlets report.

According to Greek English-language website Tornos News, there will be two flights a week between Burgas and Frankfurt and one connecting Burgas with Rostock, Leipzig and Berlin respectively.

Ferocious talks emerged in Germany and other European countries over the sexual assaults against women occurred by men of Arab or North African origin on New Year Eve’s  in five German cities and other cities in Europe.

German people demand explanations from German authorities about the handling of the attacks and ask them to reveal the identity of the perpetrators.