Political science

The acquisition of land and other real properties including limited real rights by foreign nationals and foreign legal entities has long been an inherent part of inter-state affairs due to its diplomatic, economic and political significance and long-lasting implications for any sovereign country seeking to secure a place in the constantly evolving power politics of our rapidly globalizing world

Turkey's limp consumer confidence picked up from a six-year low in October, data showed on Oct. 22, but ratings agencies highlighted risks to economic growth from a Nov. 1 election that may produce no outright winner.

After a day of eerily empty voting polls, the first results of the Greek elections will be available with the exit polls to be released at 7 p.m. The low voter turnout, estimated to be one of the lowest in modern Greek history, may make it harder for pollsters to make an accurate prediction.

A local research company, which was previously raided by government inspectors after releasing an opinion poll showing Turkey's ruling party losing votes, announced Sept. 19 that its pollsters were detained in Istanbul while conducting a field study.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu recently stated: "We are going up in the opinion polls ? We are doing everything we can for our votes to increase and to achieve one-party rule." 

They are doing everything they can and they are going up in the polls. 

The International Yemen Humanitarian Aid Conference will be held in Istanbul between Aug. 14 and 15 with the goal of seeking solutions to humanitarian problems in war-torn Yemen. 

Activists from several NGOs on Monday gathered in Zagreb's Bana Jelacica Square to honor "all victims of Operation Storm."

The half-hour campaign was aimed at "reminding the public about the crimes committed during the operations, and the state-organized denial of those crimes."

Top activists from leading NGOs like the Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, Transparency - Macedonia, the Open Society Foundation - Macedonia, CIVIL - Centre for Freedom and the Metamorphosis foundation have been tapped for years, the opposition Social Democrats' leader Zoran Zaev alleged at a press conference on Monday.

32 projects under operational program Regional Development 2007-2014 worth a total of BGN 66 M could lose the EU funding allocated to them, according to Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova.

Pavlova told journalists Friday that the majority of at-risk projects were related to urban transport.

Good public governance is significant for improving the quality of life, Y?lmaz Argüden, the founder of the Argüden Governance Academy and chairman of ARGE Consulting, told a conference titled ?Good Governance in the Public Sector - Policies and Implementation? recently held in Ankara.