Service industries

Turkish private lender Akbank on July 7 apologized for a major failure in its digital systems that left thousands of customers unable to make any transactions over the internet or at the bank's branches.

According to the statement, the persons falsely present themselves as couriers of Post-Express or other courier services, and going from door to door, try to deliver shipments to the citizens, charging a certain amount, which some citizens reported as suspicion of attempted fraud by unnamed persons.

“Turkaegean” tourism campaign tries to attract visitors to Turkey

Authorities are considering increasing speed limits on Turkey's highways, starting with newly built roads, Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has said.

Currently, the speed limit for passenger cars on highways is 120 kilometers per hour (km/h). It is 100 km/h for buses and 90 km/h for trucks.

The National Bank of Romania (BNR) does not simply aim to stimulate credit toward rational exuberance, a rapid credit growth that will end in the explosion of non-performing loans, BNR Governor Mugur Isarescu said on Wednesday at the seminar on "Target: Boosting financial intermediation".

With motorcycle delivery services becoming widespread in Turkey due to the COVID-19 restrictions, drug dealers have found it as new shipping and sales method to run their business under the disguise of motorcycle couriers.

Ljubljana – The government has adopted a regulation that details how the STA should perform its public service, and defines the scope of public service and its financing. The Government Communications Office (UKOM) is authorised to sign an annual public service agreement and verify compliance with the regulation.

Turkey's banking sector posted a net profit of 20.7 billion Turkish liras ($2.52 billion) in the first four months of 2021, the country's banking watchdog said on June 3. 

Namely, as we were told, the biggest problem is in the area of the Blue Bridge.
"The biggest crowds were reported to us at Konjarnik. These are parts near the Blue Bridge, Ustanika Street, as well as Autokomanda. We have no information whether there were any accidents, but we were told that there were too many vehicles on the streets," representatives of the Yellow Taxi told B92.

By Periklis Dimitroulopoulos

Daily life without having to send an sms to state authorities in order to leave one's home has returned. But who was actually using the system? Who was heeding public health restrictions that were abolished in practice before they were officially eliminated?