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The victory of Ekrem Imamoglu in the Istanbul mayoral race is for the Turkish president a personal political defeat.

It has been proven that the judiciary was used as a tool. High Court judges were manipulated and prosecutors were forced to or simply agreed to serve devious aims.

The current government’s short-sighted policy regarding PPC turned a corporation with small profits into a loss-making one.

The Greek Government was represented by Foreign Minister Yorgos Katrougalos, the US Government was represented by Health Secretary Alex Azar, and the Republic of Cyprus was represented by Ambassador Andreas Mavrogiannis.

'There is a weighty moral obligation of anyone who achieves great things in a land to offer as much as possible to its society,' said Piraeus City Councilman and Olympiacos FC owner Evangelos Marinakis.

His presidency was marked by the disastrous explosion at the Evangelos Florakis naval base in Mari, which was a major blow to the island’s infrastructure and economy.

“We shall continue with a plan that has been studied very well and is linked to the upgrading of Greece’s international role in the broader region and to our decisiveness about exploiting our energy resources,” PM Alexis Tsipras said.

The June 20-21 summit called on the European Commission and the EEAS to table “without delay” proposed 'targeted measures' against Turkey over its illegal drilling for hydrocarbons in Cyprus' EEZ.

The argument that perpetuation of the status quo on Cyprus benefits the Greek-Cypriot side or at least will not change the geopolitical realities is collapsing

With criminal negligence the government and corporate management ignored warnings and the company’s dismal economic performance, leading the country’s energy giant to an impasse.

Nevertheless, the poll indicates that nearly half the electorate (47 percent) wants a coalition government rather than single-party New Democracy rule.

The first person charged to testify today was a key actor who set off the chain of events that led to the murder of Fyssas by Golden Dawn's Yorgos Roupakias on a street in Keratsini near Piraeus.

Angelis alleged that the minister he calls Rasputin ordered prosecutors to file charges without following criminal procedure and without collecting adequate evidence.

The ruling party had once raised the banner of human rights, constantly unleashed charges about migrants’ poor living conditions, and demanded assistance for asylum seekers.

The next government will shoulder the weighty burden of returning the country to a path of security and stability, and voters expect electoral pledges to be implemented.

'In my person it is not the caretaker PM of a few days who is being charged but rather the then president of the Council of State. I am being charged that as an active judge I was bribed,' Pikrammenos had told Parliament about the Novartis allegations.

The move comes after the Supreme Court (Areios Pagos) issued a ruling on 23 May rescinding a decision of the competent Judicial Council of Volos which had rejected Koufodinas’ application.

'The only thing that we want is to place under guarantee the rights of the Turkish-Cypriot people which are accepted by everyone – the EU, the Greek-Cypriot side, and Greece. Are we asking for too much? It is so simple,' Cavusoglu said.

'What I mentioned in my remarks was that the draft conclusions as regards Turkey that we had before us at the start of the meeting were unsatisfactory and that we could not approve them [which would be tantamount to a veto],” Cyprus' foreign minister said.

Top politicians – including three former prime ministers – were targeted by SYRIZA with allegations of corruption and loads of mud was slung at them.