TURKEY While Turkey’s top security board convened to discuss government-led efforts to solve the Kurdish issue, the leader of the ultra-nationalist party strongly reacted to the process, calling it “destruction of the unitary state.” “What the government is trying to do is to place martyrs and butchers, our soldiers and …

CROATIA I’ve been in prison for Croatia and took so many risks than all priests will ever do. Stjepan Mesic said that the conflict with the Catholic Church went too far and took a wrong direction, Nova TV reported. Why priests are bigger Croatians than I am? Mesic asked and …

RUSSIA The death toll from the catastrophic flood inside Russia’s biggest hydroelectric power station has risen to 17 but 58 people were still missing, officials said on today. “As a result of the disaster 17 people have died and at the current moment the fate of 58 workers of the …