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Turkish business group warns of lagging behind in transatlantic trade talks

All projections indicate that Turkey’s economy would eventually be harmed due to the eventual integration of the world’s two largest economies through the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the head of Turkey’s leading business club has warned.

Bulgaria's President Plevneliev: Turkey Is Very Important To Us

“Turkey is very important to us, because we have the strategic goal to diversify our energy supplies,” Bulgaria's President Rosen Plevneliev told the Bulgarian National Radio. 

Plevneliev is in Turkey to attend the inauguration of Recep Tayyip Erdogan as president of the country. 

Folk dancers from around the world perform at Syntagma Square

Folk dancers from Panama participating in Earthdancers, an international dance and music festival, performed in Syntagma Square, central Athens, on Wednesday.

In its fourth year, the festival began on Wednesday and is to run through Sunday with more than 300 dancers and musicians from nine countries participating in performances across Attica.

IEP: Serbia is safe country

IEP: Serbia is safe country

NEW YORK -- Serbia ranks 52nd in the Global Peace Index (GPI), produced by the New York-based Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP).

This index ranks it among the top 30 percent of the safest countries in the world.

Unionization in Turkey dragging below 10 pct

Union membership in Turkey remains below 10 percent, falling far behind European Union and OECD averages, freshly announced data from the Labor Ministry has shown.

According to statistics announced by the ministry, only 1.189 million of 12.28 million workers are union members, constituting just 9.6 percent of all workers.

The Legacy of the First World War

“It was not worth even one life,” said Harry Patch shortly before he died in 2009 at the age of 111. He was the last survivor of the 65 million soldiers who fought in the First World War, and by the time he died it was a normal, quite unremarkable thing to say. But he would never have said it in 1914.  

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