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Public personalities, including actors, writers and journalists, have joined a campaign aimed at encouraging parents to enroll their children in religious studies classes in school.

Parents have by March 6 to file a written request if they want their children to attend divinity classes in school.

Journalist Mehmet Baransu was sent to court with a demand for his arrest on March 2 after being detained by anti-terror police in Istanbul in an operation over fabricated CDs that were used as evidence in the Balyoz (Sledgehammer) coup plot case.

Police detained Baransu late on March 1 after searching his home for almost 10 hours, seizing a number of documents.

The leader of opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) Mihail Mikov requested in a letter to Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev to impose a veto on the issue of the new BGN 16 B debt.

Mikov warned that in case Plevneliev does not veto the debt, his party will appeal to the Constitutional Court, daily Dnevnik repots.

It was the year 2007, the month was May. Because of the Constitutional Court?s decision of the quorum of 367 members, Turkey was not able to elect its president and its political agenda was tangled.

Feature film 'Why Me' directed by Tudor Giurgiu premiered at a gala Monday night attended by former President Traian Basescu, who told the director at the end of the event that he is convinced the film will be a success.

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Why Me' draws on the case of prosecutor Cristian Panait, who committed suicide in 2002.

President Klaus Iohannis on Thursday congratulated Simona Maya Teodoroiu at ceremony in which she was sworn in the office of judge with the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) and told the Court representatives that they represent "a pillar of democracy."

Photo credit: (c) ALEX MICSIK / AGERPRES STREAM

Özgecan Aslan was murdered brutally because she was a woman.

We are, as a country, experiencing the pain of such an atrocity. At least, today, all of us, especially we, men, should be thinking again and again, questioning our view of women.  The first thing men should do is change the language of politics.

The Turkish General Staff Prosecutor's Office ruled out in a press statement on Feb. 18 recent claims that evidence related to the Uludere (Roboski) killings was spoiled, referring to the December 2011 military air strike in which 34 civilians were killings.

Families of the victims of 2011 Uludere (Roboski) air strike massacre have demanded that retired Col. Aygün Eker provide testimony in the case after the soldier said he had warned his superiors that the targets were civilians, not outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) members.

"No hope for better life in Kosovo" - minister

LEPOSAVIC -- Serbian Labor Minister Aleksandar Vulin has said that there was "no property or economic security, or social policy" in Kosovo and Metohija.

According to him, there is also "no hope things will get better."

Speaking on the anniversary of the self-proclaimed independence of Kosovo