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While Turkey might find it easier to find itself in a place in the new climate change regime, its main focus at the Paris summit will be to secure financial and technological assistance on emission mitigation, says Semra Cerit Mazlum, a prominent associate professor at Marmara University in IstanbulOne of Turkey's main focus in the Paris climate summit that will kick off on Nov.

The new measures to be applied by the Greek Government before Christmas holidays in order to receive the sub-tranche of 1 billion euros will be determined today by Euroworking Group held in Brussels.

Deputy Minister of Finance Giorgos Chouliarakis participates in today’s meeting.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has said teachers' salaries in Turkey were below the average of those in OECD member states, stressing that seniority and teaching experience in Turkey were not well reflected in wages. 

G-20 leaders acknowledged that reducing inequality, creating jobs and ensuring inclusion were essential for ensuring stable economies during the G-20 Summit, held in the shadow of terrorism, the flight of refugees from fear and the threat of further economic crises, said the Labor 20 (L-20) in a written statement on Nov. 16. 

On May 31, 2013, your columnist promised to [then] Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an that "We'll drink to your health!" Alcohol is a simple substance in "normal" parts of the world. But it is often a useful litmus test with a broader socio-political meaning: It is a simple substance that shows why Islamists cannot have a pluralistic mind. 

Greeks are drinking less than they did in 2000 and have now dropped their alcohol consumption to beneath the OECD average.

Greece will remain in recession for two more years, as Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development  (OECD) forecasts for Greece a few days after similar estimates released by European Commission.

Turkey has finished second from last again among 44 countries in terms of adult alcohol consumption, effectively maintaining its position over the past 12 years, according to an Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) health report.

Life expectancy at birth increased by almost 10 years since 1970, says a report published by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Nearly all OECD and emerging countries have experienced large gains in life expectancy over the past 40 years. Life expectancy at birth in Turkey, Korea and Mexico has increased by twenty years or more over the period 1970-2010.

Mr President, (Jeroen Dijsselbloem)

Dear Colleagues,

It is a great honour for me to join this Eurogroup meeting as finance minister in the newly elected Greek government.