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The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) is still not at the stage of voicing its presidential candidate, its leader has said, pouring cold water on reports that the CHP’s former Ankara mayoral candidate, Mansur Yavaş, was set to be announced.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic met with the country's Protector of Citizens Sasa Jankovic on Monday and pledged to ensure the conditions for the smooth performance of the Protector of Citizens' activities, the Serbian government's media relations office said in a statement.

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev appointed Lt Gen Angel Antonov head of the National Security Service (NSO) on Monday.

By a decree Plevneliev dismissed Todor Kodzheykov and his deputy Kalin Ivanov from office, the president's press service has reported.

The head of state also appointed Col Yulian Haralampiev and Col Krasimir Stanchev to be Antonov's deputies.

German politicians want "British blackmail" rejected

BERLIN -- With his threat that Britain might leave the EU if Jean-Claude Juncker is made head of the EC, David Cameron seems to have angered German politicians.

SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras, who was the European Left’s candidate for Commission president, is to meet several of his rival hopefuls in Brussels on Wednesday.

Water cannons and tear gas helped Turkish police to disperse demonstrators marking the first anniversary of Gezi Park protests.

Taskim Square in Istanbul, Turkey's biggest cities, was virtually sealed off by 25 000 police preventing citizens from reaching the venue. Armored vehicles had been also deployed to safeguard a ban on gatherings this weekend imposed by the government.

I was planning to take on Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s claim that high interest rates beget high inflation - until I realized that I would be wasting my (and your) valuable time.

With Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan set to declare his candidacy for the presidency, Deputy Prime Minister Beşir Atalay has suggested that the more urgent question facing the government was convincing President Abdullah Gül to lead the party in the run-up to parliamentary elections in 2015.

Beşir Atalay has said the government is preparing to intensify the process through bold steps Refuting the presence of any stagnation along the resolution/peace process, Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Beşir Atalay has said the government is preparing to intensify the process through bold steps.

The two prosecutors investigating the Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party in order to determine whether it constitutes a criminal organization are pushing ahead with the depositions of members of the party as the expiration of the 18-month period of their pre-trial custody is set to expire and they may have to be released.