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Croatian newspaper Nacional must pay 9,100 euro compensation to vice prime minister Tomislav Karamarko for publishing claims that he was an informer for the Yugoslav intelligence service.

Syrian Raghda Hassan, who is now living in Istanbul and was featured in award-winning British documentary 'A Syrian Love Story,' says she will continue fighting for her country from her new homeSyrian revolutionist Raghda Hassan, whose life is the subject of award-winning documentary "A Syrian Love Story," filmed by British director Sean McAllister, has been living in Istanbul for nearly three

A former state security officer testified that his chief, murder defendant Milan Radonjic, was taking “unusual” interest in the surveillance of journalist Slavko Curuvija before he was killed in 1999.

The Bulgarian National Radio (BNR) celebrates its 81st anniversary on Monday.

On 25 January 1935, Tsar Boris III signed a decree which made radio diffusion in the then Kingdom of Bulgaria a state property.

BNR's history of broadcasting began with a seven-hour program, which used to include news broadcasted two times a day for ten minutes.

Two state security officers said they had opposition journalist Slavko Curuvija under surveillance on the day he was murdered in 1999, but denied having any knowledge about who shot him.

The legacy of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is still bitterly contested in today's Turkey. Approaching the centenary of the republic's establishment, the process of Westernization, secularization and modernization led by Turkey's nationalist founding father still provides the reference against which various political movements - whether sympathetic or antagonistic - define themselves. 

The Bulgarian prosecuting authorities have indicted Canadian citizen Hassan el Hajj Hassan and Australian national Meliad Farah on terrorism charges in connection with the the deadly bombing at Burgas Sarafovo Airport in 2012, 24 Chasa daily reported on Friday.

Nikola Bajto, a journalist at Croatian weekly newspaper Novosti, wrote on Friday that he had been censured by the council of honour of the Croatian Journalists' Association, HND, for his satire on the national anthem that was published in August 2015.

A Turkish film titled "Mavi Bisiklet" (Blue Bicycle) will compete at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. Directed by Ümit Köreken, the film will compete in the "Generation Kplus" category, the main theme of which is children and youth, to win the "Crystal Bear Award." 

Imad al-Husin, better known as Abu Hamza, who has been detained without trial at the Lukavica immigration centre of under suspicion of representing a threat to Bosnian national security, will be soon released, his lawyer said on Thursday.

"Abu Hamza could be released in February," Nedim Kulenovic, the lawyer from the NGO Vasa Prava, which is representing al-Husin, told BIRN.