Gendarmerie

Platinum Wolf 2015 exercise underway

BELGRADE -- The military exercise Platinum Wolf 2015 is underway in the Serbian Army (VS) Base Jug ("South") near the town of Bujanovac, in southern Serbia.

Some 360 members of the VS, the United States Marine Corps Forces Europe and of Bulgarian, Macedonian, Romanian and Croatian army are taking part.

Turkey’s intelligence agency, the police and the gendarmerie are to get exclusive authority on the personal data of citizens, according to a new draft law that is likely to stir further debate about “profiling” by the government.

A debate is currently ongoing about the scope of political authority. The government wants the Interior Ministry to conduct appointments in the gendarmerie force, while the General Staff is concerned that this will lead to the “politicization” of the gendarmerie.

The gunman who killed a soldier in Ottawa and then raced through Canada's parliament before being shot dead was a misfit and perhaps mentally ill, according to police, friends and family, while his troubled and transient past included robbery and drug offences.

The government is preparing to reshape the country’s 175-year-old gendarmerie forces, but some observers have raised concerns about plans to link the complex military branch totally to the Interior Ministry.

Daily: Dismissals looming in Interior Ministry

BELGRADE -- The internal control sector of the Interior Ministry is checking the work of all units - not just the Gendarmerie, Belgrade-based Danas reported on Tuesday.

BELGRADE - The internal control sector of the Serbian Interior Ministry is checking the work of all units - not just the Gendarmerie, Belgrade-based Danas reported on Tuesday.

Vucic: My brother showed his ID, we have video to back this

BELGRADE -- Aleksandar Vucic stated on Tuesday that members of the Gendarmerie beat up his brother Andrej in the recent incident although he showed them his ID.

Sea otters living on the Bolaman River near Fatsa off the Black Sea coast will be heaving a sigh of relief, as the construction of a hydroelectric power plant (HES) on the Şahsen River was halted on Aug. 19 with a decision by the district prefecture following locals's protests.  

The historic Sümela Monastery in the Black Sea province of Trabzon is preparing for a yearly service that will be held on Aug. 15.

Fener Greek Patriarch Bartholomew is expected to conduct the service, which is held in honor of the Assumption of Mary, a Christian feast that is marked on Aug. 15.