Fear of the 'Big One': Turkey Rattled by Quakes, Experts Warn It May Be a Foreshock
A series of powerful earthquakes shook western Turkey on April 23, causing panic among residents but resulting in no fatalities or serious damage
Justice Miniser Abdulhamit Gül has said that the chemical castration procedure, which the government is considering to introduce for child abusers, is not planning to be used on all of the offenders, but instead will be left to the discretion of the judge overlooking the case, Hurriyet writes.
Decsion mechanism for the procedure would be “case-specific,” the minister told reporters in the central Anatolian province of Konya, where he held some official meetings.
Gül has also said that a total of 18,492 people were currently imprisoned in Turkey, convicted of charges of sexual abuse.
The minister has also touched upon an Istanbul court's March 9-dated decision to release the investigative journalist Ahmet Şık and Murat Sabuncu, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Cumhuriyet, in the trial on terror-related charges of staff from the newspaper .
"Turkey is a state of law. Everyone has to respect the decision that the court has handed. You may not like the decision, you have to respect it. If there is a wrong decision, this is solved in the legal system. We would only respect it," he said.
The Ploiești Court of Appeal has ruled to annul the decision of the Romanian Constitutional Court, which had previously invalidated the results of last year’s presidential election
Montenegro’s Minister for European Affairs, Majda Gorgević, reaffirmed in an interview with BGNES that Chinese investments do not threaten the country’s EU aspirations
During the "EU Meets the Balkans" forum in Sofia, North Macedonia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Zoran Dimitrovski addressed ongoing concerns surrounding his country's EU accession process
EU Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos emphasized that the expansion of the European Union remains one of the top priorities of the current European Commission
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has confirmed his intention to attend the Victory Day parade in Moscow on May 9
After reports emerged this week from Bulgarian media stating that Bulgaria is "fully ready to sign an agreement with North Macedonia and start construction on a cross-border railway tunnel along Corridor 8"
Google Street View Cars Return to Bulgaria for Major Mapping Update
Housing Prices Soar in Bulgaria’s Major Cities as Demand and Supply Strain Increase