Development Ministry

Preparations have been finished for the new season in the southeastern province of ?anl?urfa's Halfeti district, which was declared a slow city in 2013 by the Cittaslow General Committee. 

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has issued a notice to speed up mainly local coal activities, published in the Official Gazette on Feb. 24. A board to monitor and coordinate energy investments in these areas has also be opened in line with the notice. 

The Turkish Court of Auditors has not announced its annual audit reports publicly, reversing the practice of releasing detailed reports in the past, raising concerns about transparency in public spending. 

A combination of political uncertainty and economic fragility in Turkey, as well as unstable circumstances externally, has forced Ankara's economic targets for the 2016-2018 period to be reduced to a more modest level.  

Roma People Confederation of Turkey head Ahmet Çokya?ar said the organization is working to build a textile factory to employ Roma people in the northwestern province of Kocaeli in cooperation with authorities. 

Çokya?ar said a project aiming to remove obstacles before the employment of Roma people in Kocaeli was about to be finalized at a meeting in Kocaeli. 

The court decision in the case of Liviu Dragnea is a symbolic decision of condemning from a legal point of view a political action - the suspension of the former President and the referendum, Social Democratic Party (PSD) Chairman Victor Ponta said on Friday.

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The police are taking emergency measures to ensure that two demonstrations scheduled to take place in central Athens on Thursday ? in favor of and against the operation of the Skouries gold mine in Halkidiki, northern Greece ? are kept apart.

The ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) top economy executives will be replaced in the June 7 election, according to its recently announced candidate list, while the opposition parties' nomination of leading economic figures apparently displayed their bid to show voters that they are ready to take power.

Greece achieved one of the highest rates of European Union subsidy absorption in 2014, according to the Development Ministry, as it managed to avoid losing out on any contributions from Brussels from any funding program.

By Dimitra Manifava

Food group Chipita is relocating back to Greece from Cyprus, bucking the recent trend of major enterprises leaving this country. The move is based on the improvement in Chipita?s net position and on the decision to relist the company on the Greek bourse, according to the company?s CEO Spyros Theodoropoulos.