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More than 50 employees of several opposition media outlets that were recently placed under the management of a trustee panel have been relieved of their duties, daily Hürriyet has reported.

A Greek top administrative court on Monday annulled the government decision to suspend Canadian Eldorado Gold’s mining operations in northern Greece. Eldorado had appealed to overturn a ban on its plans to develop a gold mine in a forested area of northern Greece in a case widely seen as a case of the leftist government contesting foreign investment.

Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga has asked the Constitutional Court on Friday to review the agreement on the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO).

The court should determine whether it is "in accordance with the supreme law," Tanjug is reporting.

The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, BIRN, has been awarded a legal victory over the Kosovo Prime Minister's office by a court in Prishtina, following a three-year battle to gain access to government travel expense documents.

Bulgaria will extradite a 17-year-old French citizen wanted by France with a European Arrest Warrant on suspicions of terrorism.

The French citizen was detained at the Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint last week as he attempted to leave Bulgaria in the direction of Syria with the passport of his brother.

Visoki Decani monastery's abbot has said that countries that support Kosovo's UNESCO membership do so "for the sake of settling political interests."

Archimandrite Sava Janjic told the daily Politika that this was done due to the fact "Kosovo had to recognize the court for the crimes of the KLA and the Community of Serb municipalities."

An Ankara court approved a demand by the prosecutor's office on Oct. 27 to seize administration of the Koza-?pek business group, upon suspicion that it is "financing terrorism," as part of an investigation ongoing since Sept. 1. The court decision came despite an inspection report saying no irregularities were found in the company records.

Social media users who insulted German Chancellor Angela Merkel have been sentenced to two-and-a-half-year prison terms, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has said, while complaining that insults against him have been, however, appreciated by politicians in the country.

Legal action taken against Bulgaria by the State General Reserve Fund of Oman is based on ill-founded claims, the country's Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov said on Tuesday.

He asserted Bulgaria was "prepared to fight this battle" and had already hired a team of lawyers.

An Ankara prosecutor has launched an investigation into Interior Minister Selami Altonok and several public servants for "neglect of duty" over the Oct. 10 suicide bombing in the Turkish capital that took the lives of 102 people.