Georgia

Relations between countries come in all shapes and sizes, ranging from unmitigated enmity to total cordiality. But the strong historical friendship and the deep cultural and religious ties between Greece and Georgia put our bilateral relations in the league of their own.

Bulgaria has the 60th best result in the Rio Paralympics, the final ranking shows.

With one gold medal, won by Ruzhdi Ruzhdi in shot put F55 category, the country's result is similar to that of Bahrain, Kuwait, and Georgia, each having scooped one gold medal.

This has been the first gold medal for Bulgarian paralympic athletes since 2004.

Musicians from the region will be the highlight of the so-called Brick Roads Sofia Music Festival that is to take place for the third time in Sofia, Bulgaria, in October.

The event will take place on October 07-08, starting at 19:00.  

BELGRADE - The European Parliament's civil liberties committee voted on September 5 for visa liberalization for Georgia to the EU's Schengen zone, RFE/RL reports.

It also voted in favor of similar move for Kosovo but against the proposal to let the European Parliament negotiate this visa-liberalization deal with other EU institutions, leaving the deal for Pristina in limbo.

Germany and France oppose granting visa liberalization to Kosovo, and also Ukraine and Georgia, a Pristina-based Albanian language daily is reporting.

Beta agency said, quoting Zeri newspaper, that the two EU countries fear "increased number of asylum seekers."

The number of foreign arrivals visiting Turkey slumped by 28 percent in April to 1.75 million compared to the same month of 2015, marking the steepest decline since May 1999, according to data issued by the Tourism Ministry on May 27.

Almost half of the foreign arrivals were made by day visitors, the data showed.

The former director of the Henry Dunant Hospital in northern Athens was remanded yesterday after testifying for more than three hours in connection with accusations that he laundered 3.2 million deutschemark he had received nearly two decades ago as a bribe from a German hospital outfitter.

Nearly 1,700 migrants were returned to their countries of origin in the month of April following a nation-wide operation conducted by the Greek police. The vast majority of the illegal migrants came from Albania (852), while 157 came from Pakistan, 107 from Morocco, 61 from Iran, 51 from Georgia, 45 from Afghanistan, 29 from Bangladesh and 16 from Bulgaria.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an's daughter, Sümeyye Erdo?an, has set May 14 as the wedding date with Selçuk Bayraktar, a defense industrialist engineer producing unmanned aerial vehicles. 

Unifree Duty Free ??letmecili?i, the operator firm of the duty free areas in Istanbul's to-be-built new airport, will pay rent up to 500 million euros per year to Istanbul Grand Airport (?GA), the operator, if the shopping facilities reach their full potential.