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Tourism Minister Expects 30% More Russian Visitors to Bulgaria Next Year
Bulgaria is expecting an increase in the number of Russian tourists to Bulgaria in 2016, the country's Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova has said.
Speaking during a visit to Plovdiv, the second-largest Bulgarian city, Angelkova has added the upward trend is mostly due to the complications for Russians who previously used to spend their summer holidays in Egypt or Turkey.
Construction worker arrested for 'insulting' Erdo?an on social media
A construction worker in Dilovas? district of Kocaeli was arrested by a local court for insulting the Turkish president on the social media.
Gülenists exploited judiciary for own goals: Top jurists
The "Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ)/Parallel State Structure (PDY)," an alleged organization led by U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, exploited the judiciary and state institutions to achieve their own goals, a top Turkish judicial official has argued.
A new platform for fine art students
Do?u? Group, in an attempt to support faculties of fine arts students, has initiated a social responsibility project and created a platform entitled "A place for art with Do?u?."
Brown bear embalmed
A three-meter-tall brown bear, which died six months ago on a highway in the northwestern province of Bolu, was embalmed and put on display at the Animal Museum at the Abant Nature Park
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China looks to operating Greek Cypriot ports
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi said his country is interested in operating Greek Cypriot ports and to help turn the small east Mediterranean island nation into a regional shipping hub.
Yi also said after talks on Dec. 21 with his Greek Cypriot counterpart, Ioannis Kasoulides, that China is looking to develop industrial zones around the ports.
Damage by ISIL comparable to Prophet Mohammad cartoons, says head of Turkish Diyanet
Damage done by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants is comparable to that wrought by "Islamophobic" drawers of "intolerable cartoons," Mehmet Görmez, head of the Turkish Religious Affairs (Diyanet), has said, without using the name of the French satire magazine that was targeted in a deadly attack.
Turkish assets hold steady ahead of critical Central Bank meeting
Turkish stocks firmed on Dec. 21 and the Turkish Lira moved sideways ahead of a crucial interest rate decision that could help the Central Bank shake off fears about interference in monetary policy.
University rejects hosting evolution workshop
"The Evolution School," a two-day workshop organized by a university club and a local doctors' chamber, was held at a social hall of tradesmen after the club's university refused to hold the event.
Turkish university rejects hosting evolution workshop
"The Evolution School," a two-day workshop organized by a university club and a local doctors' chamber, was held at a social hall of tradesmen after the club's university refused to hold the event.
71 Syrian, Afghan migrants caught in vehicles in Thrace
Some 71 migrants seeking to cross to the Greek island of Lesbos, as well as nine suspected organizers, were captured in the Ayvac?k district of the Aegean province of Çanakkale on Dec. 20.
Police tracked three minibuses and a van before stopping the vehicles carrying dozens who had fled their home countries.
69 Afghan refugees rescued, two migrants drown in Aegean
Turkish coast guards rescued 69 Afghan refugees off the coast of western Izmir province Dec. 21, local official sources said.
The refugees were rescued while they were trying to go to the Greek island of Chios.
Meanwhile, the bodies of two people, including a three-and-a-half year old child and a 17-year-old girl, were found off the coast of Çe?me in ?zmir province.
Macedonia Health Minister Faces No-Confidence Vote
The main opposition party, the Social Democrats, instigated the no-confidence vote in parliament on Monday, accusing Todorov of being responsible for "systemic problems and chaos in healthcare which has resulted in tragic consequences for citizens and patients".
The Social Democrats alleged that Todorov has been "incompetently and irresponsibly" managing the public healthcare system.
Turkish subsidiary in Russia fails inspection, operations halted
Operations at Gersan R-Zao, a Turkish power-distribution equipment maker's Russian subsidiary, have been halted for 60 days after it failed an environmental inspection, the company said in a written statement to the Public Disclosure Platform (KAP) on late Dec. 18.
Police detain PKK member who targeted commandos in Istanbul
Turkish police officers have detained a militant from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) who planted explosives under a road in Istanbul targeting specially trained Turkish soldiers.