The United States will appoint President Donald Trump’s longtime friend and current US ambassador to Turkey, Thomas Barrack, as a special envoy for Syria, a person with direct knowledge of the matter and a diplomat in Turkey said.
The European Commission has advanced a proposal to expand the definition of a “safe third country,” which will facilitate the transfer of asylum seekers to certain third countries, with the main aim of further reducing migration to the EU.
The properties purchased to date through the second cycle of the “My Home” program are over 40 years old, and average 157,000 euros.
Michael Rubin, the director of policy analysis at the Middle East Forum and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, joins Thanos Davelis as we look into the Turkey angle to the Pakistan-India conflict, and dig into what developments on the ground tell us about Ankara’s arms industry and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ambitions…
Melbourne chef Andreas Papadakis has been named a finalist for a prestigious James Beard Foundation Award for his debut cookbook, “Tipo 00: The Pasta Cookbook – For People Who Love Pasta.”
A public prosecutor on Wednesday filed criminal charges against Christos Mavrikis for the felony of attempting to bribe a Supreme Court judge with €1 million to influence a civil case involving disputed land plots.
US Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has criticized Secretary of State Marco Rubio over reported plans by the Trump administration to shut down nearly 30 US embassies and consulates abroad, including the consulate in Thessaloniki, northern Greece.
Turkey is in talks with Canada’s Candu Energy and other companies regarding plans to build its second and third nuclear power plants, Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said.
Investors from countries in Western Europe have increased their purchases by up to 103%.
US oil producer Continental Resources estimates there is a shale oil reserve of 6.1 billion barrels in Turkey’s southeastern Diyarbakir Basin, the Turkish energy minister said.