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Parliament to hold open session for Kurdish move talks

TURKEY The parliamentary discussion over the recently launched Kurdish initiative will be held during an open session, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said late Tuesday, ending the controversy that prompted harsh criticism from the opposition. “It will be an open session, and everyone will be able to listen to what …

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Bokova: I Thank 3 Bulgarian Governments for UNESCO Success

BULGARIA The newly elected Director-General of UNESCO, Bulgarian Irina Bokova, has thanked three former prime ministers of her country for their support. “I owe this success to the successive governments of Simeon Saxecoburg, Sergey Stanshev and current Prime Minister Boyko Borisov,” Bokova, member of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, said hours …

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Macedonian Encyclopaedia To Be Changed

MACEDONIA In an emergency session on Wednesday the editorial committee of Macedonia’s Academy of Sciences and Arts’s, MANU, that prepared the country’s first encyclopaedia decided to revise the disputed parts of the book that refer to the history and present life of the large Albanian community living in Macedonia. After …

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