Afro-Eurasia

'Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe' by Kapka Kassabova (Granta, 379 pages, £15)

Serbia's Republic Electoral Commission told BIRN that so far it has granted 17 foreign organisations permission to monitor the presidential elections on April 2 - but crucially, the number of poll observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, OSCE, will be far fewer than at previous ballots.

Domestic observers:

BELGRADE - Eight observers from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights have registered to monitor the April 2 presidential elections in Serbia, the national election commission (RIK) told Tanjug on Wednesday.

My Hürriyet colleague Jale Özgentürk recently attended the Seatrade Fair in Miami, after which she wrote that Turks' interest in this Florida city was rising. 

After reading this, I called U.S.-based real estate agent Nerime Demren, who I had previously interviewed two years ago, to ask what has been happening. 

The OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has launched a mission to observe the April 16 constitutional referendum in Turkey.

Turkey aims to increase annual trade volume with Hungary to $5 billion, Science, Industry and Technology Minister Faruk Özlü has said.

American officials have urged Ankara to refrain from action that would further escalate tension with fellow NATO member Greece in the Aegean Sea, Kathimerini understands, adding that the issue was raised during the Munich Security Conference last month, as well as during private contacts in Ankara.

Some 232,085 new jobs were created across Turkey in February after the government started a campaign to boost employment, a top official announced on March 3. 

German tourists are turning their backs on Turkey as a holiday destination in droves, according to data published by the “Gesellschaft für Konsumforschung” (GfK), Germany’s largest market research institute. Bookings by Germans for Turkish resorts for 2017 had declined by 58% by the end of January.

Summer bookings to Turkey by German holidaymakers are down by more than half after a spate of bombings, with tourists instead heading to Greece and Egypt, according to German market researcher GfK.