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İYİ (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener is set to attend her party's executive board meeting on July 30 amid her withdrawal from leadership candidacy for the upcoming congress to be held in August.

The body of former deputy interior minister Giorgos Katsibardis was recovered from a sea area near Limanakia in Drosia, northeast of Athens.

According to reports, the body of the 79-year-old, who was among the founders of PASOK, was found at sea on Thursday morning.

The Turkish judiciary has once again made a politically motivated decision by moving U.S. pastor Andrew Brunson from jail to house arrest, main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy group leader Engin Özkoç has said.

The government said on Thursday it will boycott Skai TV and its two radio stations over the television station's claim on Wednesday night that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was planning to sack the chief of the fire brigade and, possibly, the chief of the Greek police.

Provincial heads of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) have thrown their support behind longtime leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu amid an ongoing campaign by dissidents in the party to convey an extraordinary congress to oust him.

The Jerusalem Report, a news magazine published by Israeli daily The Jerusalem Post, fired on July 24 the illustrator Avi Katz after a cartoon depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the lawmakers from his ruling Likud party as pigs.

Archbishop Ieronymos lashed out on Wednesday against a senior cleric who blamed the devastating wildfire in eastern Attica on Greece's "atheist prime minister."

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) expressed their disturbance with the judicial decision to continue the detention of Istanbul Deputy Enis Berberoğlu in a meeting with newly elected Parliament Speaker Binali Yıldırım on July 25.

İYİ (Good) Party chair Meral Akşener has said her decision to not run for leadership in a convention next month has not changed despite strong pressure from her supporters.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) lawmaker Yaşar Tüzün said the number of CHP delegates who have signed to bring the party to extraordinary congress have exceeded the sufficient number of signatures to challenge CHP chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu's leadership by defeated presidential candidate Muharrem İnce.