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Crucial bailout bill passes; 31 ruling SYRIZA MPs vote ‘no’

Thirty-one ruling SYRIZA MPs failed to “toe the party line” during the early morning vote in Parliament on a second package of prior actions linked to the third bailout memorandum agreed to with creditors last week. If the abstainers are included, 36 ruling party deputies did not ratify the bill.

Opposition party leaders during debate on third bailout

Other political leaders’ statements from Parliament in the early morning (!) hours of Thursday on on the second package of prior actions envisioned in a memorandum for a third Greek bailout:

Potami party leader Stavros Theodorakis:

“Government’s handling of economic crisis brought the country to a worse state than previous situation”

ND leader: We vote ‘yes’ not to back govt but to keep Greece in euro

Main opposition New Democracy (ND) president Vangelis Meimarakis employed past descriptions used by ruling leftist SYRIZA party — when it was in the opposition — to ask whether “coup instigators” and “criminals of Europe” gave us the money to remain alive?

Tsipras admits: We were defeated, but opponents’ victory ‘Pyrrhic’

“We were defeated, by the victory by our opponents was Pyrrhic,” Greek PM Alexis Tsipras said from Parliament’s podium an hour after midnight on Thursday morning, in yet another late, late night debate in Greece’s parliament over bailout terms, conditions and agreements.

Remembering Agatha Christie at 'Black Week Turkey' events in Istanbul

One of the world?s oldest luxury hotels, the Pera Palace Hotel Jumeirah in Istanbul, will host the ?Black Week Turkey? event on Oct. 22-24 in honor of Agatha Christie?s 125th birthday with the attendance of the famous author?s grandson and a number of leading crime fiction authors. 

Kurdish insurgents and the Turkish state

'Zones of Rebellion: Kurdish Insurgents and the Turkish State' by Ay?egül Ayd?n and Cem Emrence (Cornell University Press, 208 pages, $39) 

ISIL's Turkish bomber brainwashed in this teahouse, brother on run

The 20-year-old man, who detonated himself in southeastern Turkey on July 20, killing 31 others, was brainwashed by radicals at a teahouse, a daily Hürriyet investigation reveals. Police are now seeking his brother, who is thought to be preparing for another attack.

So why are Turkey's Sunnis angry?

The latest attack by the barbaric jihadists of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on July 20 in Suruç is the latest proof of the imminent danger Turkey is facing, especially from its own citizens trying to be a part of the ?global jihad.?

I know all the answers

The horrific attack at Suruç and on the same day the armed clash at Ad?yaman came at a time when some kind of happiness, reconciliation and ease was about to arrive in the country? Before being able to enjoy any of them, a disaster happens.

The fondness of Erdo?an and Davuto?lu

It was in the papers yesterday on July 22 that the suicide bomber of Suruç was from the southeastern city Ad?yaman, that he was tipped off to the police by his father for joining the Islamic State of Iraq and Levent (ISIL), that he was wanted by police as a terror-related suspect and that he had met the HDP rally bomber of Diyarbak?r at a tea shop in Ad?yaman. 

What happened this year in the startup arena?

After I wrote about entrepreneurship recently, I had the opportunity to be able to speak to Ay?e ?nal about the topic. 

Inal is the general secretary of Galata Business Angels (GBA), the premier Angel Investment Network in Istanbul.

According to the information she provided, in the first half of 2015 in Turkey:
 
A total of 130 Startups were founded,

The Iranian deal

After years of thorny negotiations, Iran and the P5+1 countries, consisting of five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany, finally reached an agreement on July 14 to control Iranian nuclear enrichment program. 

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