ΜΕΧΡΙ ΚΑΙ ΟΙ ΒΟΥΛΓΑΡΟΙ ΤΟ ΚΑΤΑΛΑΒΑΝ-Turkish jets and ships enter Greek territory

Four Turkish fighter jets violated Greek air space on the afternoon of July 20 2010, flying over the small Aegean island of Agathonisi before Greek fighters scrambled and gave them a chase. Greek defence officials said it was the fourth such transgression by Turkish aircraft in three weeks, Greek media reported.

In a further Turkish incursion, a Turkish marine research ship ventured into Greece’s continental shelf area in the northern Aegean where Athens claims the rights for exploration and exploitation of potential mineral and fossil fuel deposits, Greek daily Kathimerni quoted the defence ministry as saying.

The manoeuvres of the Turkish vessel Cesme, in addition to the reappearance of yet another Turkish ship, the Piri Reis near Kastellorizo, is the latest episode in the ongoing bilateral territorial disputes in the Aegean.

«It is clear that the Turks are trying to maintain tension but we will not play their game because, the way we see it, it is they that will have to justify their provocative actions,» Kathimerini cited a source in the defence ministry as saying. The same source said that Greece would continue to uphold its passive stance which was part of a «well-coordinated strategy».

Russia, Bulgaria to set up South Stream joint venture by February 2011

Russia and Bulgaria will set up a joint venture on the South Stream project by February, 2011, the Novinite.com news portal said on Friday, citing Bulgarian Energy Minister Traicho Traikov.

Earlier on Friday Russia and Bulgaria started talks in the Bulgarian resort of Varna aimed at settling all the economic and technical details of the South Stream project’s «road map».

Russia and Bulgaria signed an agreement on the South Stream project in January 2008, and both financial and technical preparations were scheduled to be put together by mid-2010.

ΝΑ ΚΑΛΕΣΟΥΜΕ ΤΟΝ ΤΟΥΡΚΟ Erkan Aktürk ΓΙΑ ΝΑ ΚΑΤΑΣΚΕΥΑΣΕΙ ΤΟΥΣ ΜΙΝΑΡΕΔΕΣ ΤΟΥ ΒΟΤΑΝΙΚΟΥ

Turk-made minarets rise in European cities

Amid rising Islamophobia in Europe, a Turkish craftsman is exporting mosque minarets to European countries.

A craftsman from the northwestern province of Sakarya who started working at his father’s minaret workshop when he was just 12 years old has begun exporting mosque spires to European countries.

Erkan Aktürk’s latest sale was a 3.5-ton, 20-meter spire that he sent Thursday to Bulgaria, where it will be erected at a mosque in the city of Silistre.

Η ΒΟΥΛΓΑΡΙΑ ΣΤΗΡΙΖΕΙ ΤΟΝ ΡΩΣΙΚΟ ΑΓΩΓΟ South Stream ΜΕΤΑ ΑΠΟ «ΑΔΕΛΦΙΚΗ» ΕΠΙΣΚΕΨΗ ΤΟΥ ΡΩΣΟΥ ΑΝΤΙΠΡΟΕΔΡΟΥ Viktor Zubkov

ΟΙ ΑΜΕΡΙΚΑΝΟΙ ΑΝΤΙΔΡΟΥΝ «ΝΕΥΡΙΚΑ»

Russia’s threat to exclude Bulgaria from its planned South Stream gas pipeline has worked, Russian daily Kommersant wrote yesterday (7 July), as a Moscow envoy obtained Sofia’s consent for a »roadmap» to speed up the Kremlin-favoured project. The USA reacted nervously.

The visit by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov to Sofia on 6 July was crowned by an unexpected breakthrough: the Bulgarian government stated for the first time in public that it would not give up the South Stream project, Kommersant writes.

The article’s title, ‘Bulgaria: Brotherly to Gazprom’, plays with the ‘brotherhood’ catchword widely used in communism to describe Soviet-Bulgarian relations.

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Sanctions Loom for Bulgaria over Burgas-Alexandroupolis Oil Pipe

The agreement to build the Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil line was signed by Russia, Greece and Bulgaria in March, 2007. File photo

Bulgaria will face economic sanctions if the cabinet pulls out of the Burgas-Alexandroupolis project, according to Plamen Rusev, Director of the Bulgarian branch of «Trans-Balkan Pipeline” which is to build the oil line.