World Bulletin / News Desk

TURKEY

ANKARA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's upcoming visit to Poland will boost trade and investment between the two countries, business leaders from both countries said.

ISTANBUL - A leading Turkish poet and intellectual said Turkey is more involved in accommodating knowledge than producing it, pointing to the slowness of intellectual activities.

ANKARA - Decrying how Muslims in Athens have no choice but to pray in unsanitary conditions in basements, a top Muslim cleric from Greece said there is a great need for a mosque in the Greek capital.

FRANCE

STRASBOURG - Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag to attend the groundbreaking ceremony of the Eyup Sultan Mosque complex.

AUSTRIA
VIENNA - Early parliamentary elections to be held in Austria.

GERMANY
BERLIN - Regional elections in northern German state of Lower Saxony.