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Prominent Turkish historian İlber Ortaylı has said the Turkish president’s comments on Muslims discovering the American continent before Christopher Columbus were “half-fantasy.”

Prominent Turkish historian İlber Ortaylı has said the Turkish president’s comments on Muslims discovering the American continent before Christopher Columbus were “half-fantasy.”

BELGRADE - The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) project has been officially launched in Paris, with Serbia as one of its founders.

The project was launched earlier this week, with European Commission officials and delegations from 15 countries in attendance.

Sixteen members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) are currently imprisoned in Turkey and three of them are being tried in connection to a deadly March 20 attack in the Central Anatolian province of Niğde, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has stated.

Advocaat ends stint as coach of Serbia's national team

BELGRADE -- The Football Association of Serbia (FSS) has decided to end the contract with national coach Dick Advocaat, it was reported over the weekend.

As many as 378,811 Romanian voters have cast their ballots on Sunday in the second round of the presidential elections, according to the figures received by the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) from the 294 polling stations set up abroad by 8 a.m. on Monday.

As many as 114,607 Romanian voters living abroad turned out to the ballot by 1 p.m. on Sunday in the second round of voting for President of Romania, according to figures received by the Central Electoral Bureau from 263 polling stations out of a total 294 set up abroad.

BELGRADE - The Football Association of Serbia (FSS) has decided to end the contract with national coach Dick Advocaat, the SOS TV station reported on Saturday.

The FSS held a meeting with the Dutch coach after the 3-1 defeat against Denmark in Belgrade in a European championship qualifier match on Friday and thetwo sides agreed to terminate the contract.

BELGRADE - Serbia lost to Denmark 3-1 in Belgrade on Friday, in a match of Group I of the qualifications for the next European championship.

This defeat reduces significantly Serbia's chances of reaching the European championship in France in 2016.

Serbia - Denmark 1-3 (Z. Tosic 4 - Bendtner 60, 85, Kjar 62).

Serbia's next match is in Portugal on March 29, 2015.

A number of key European countries are cracking down on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has said.