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Bosnia on Feb. 15 formally submitted an application to join the EU, hoping to catch up with its Balkan neighbors after years lost following the bloody break-up of Yugoslavia.

Opposition parties in Kosovo have called on people to take to the streets again on February 17, when the country will celebrate the eighth anniversary of the declaration of independence.

One of most-cited social scientists of our time, Professor David Harvey speaks about the role of the reader, writer and everyday people in a social resistanceIncreasing social inequality, wars and migration all call for a clear policy response and an urgent reply to the question how can civil society fight back. 

Aç?k Radyo has been crowned as the eighth "Changemaker" of the 7th season of the Sabanc? Foundation's "Turkey Changemakers Program."

A report that is due to be issued on Wednesday by Brana [Dam], a coalition of Bosnian NGOs formed after the catastrophic floods that hit Bosnia in 2014, monitors the transparency of recovery projects and international donations.

The report will present the results of more than a year's research into hundreds of projects implemented over the whole territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

DiEM25, the movement due to be launched by former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, is set to look for allies in Bulgaria, a civic activist said on Saturday.

Fishes, corals and several other marine species living under part of the Marmara Sea that surrounds Istanbul's Princes' Islands are under severe threat due to the large amount of seine nets abandoned by Turkish fishermen.

U.S. Senator Hiram W. Johnson said in 1917 that the first casualty when war comes is truth. Johnson was an isolationist, against the U.S. entry to World War One. In the same year as he uttered those words, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson led his country into the Great War in the old continent.

Jan. 27 is designated by the United Nations as International Holocaust Remembrance Day and coincides with the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by Soviet troops during World War II.

The day was marked in Ankara last week with a ceremony attended by EU Minister Volkan Bozk?r, members of Turkey's Jewish community and foreign diplomats.

The United Nations said on Jan. 29 it still expects Syria peace talks in Geneva to begin later in the day, despite uncertainty over whether key opposition groups would attend.
 
UN envoy Staffan de Mistura "will start by meeting the government's delegation today (Friday)" headed by Syria's UN ambassador Bashar al-Jaafari, the UN said in a statement.