October, 2013

• 28 October

  Bulgaria backs Turkey’s EU integration

  Bulgaria stands behind Turkey’s bid to become a full member of the European Union, stated Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Kristian Vigenin. Sunday Vigenin is on an official trip to Turkey, where he met Turkish

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• 28 October

  Bulgaria, Turkey to increase cooperation on influx of Syrian refugees

  Bulgaria and Turkey have vowed to deepen bilateral cooperation regarding the influx of refugees from Syria, vowed the foreign ministers of the two neighbors.

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• 25 October

  EU to send observers into Mali for legislative polls

  The European Union Electoral Observer Mission for Mali (MOE EU Mali-2013) will on Oct. 28 deploy 20 long-term observers for the legislative polls to be held in the West African country. MOE EU Mali-2013 observers arrived in the Malian capital Bamako on Oct. 24 in preparation for the most

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• 25 October

  Heavy fighting in Golan Heights

  Fierce fighting is raging between Syrian regime troops and oppositions forces on southern outskirts of the town of Al-Qunaitrah in the Golan Heights, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday.

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• 25 October

  Turkish FM to visit Iraq next month

  Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will visit Iraq next month. According to the TV channel, the Foreign Minister himself said this during a meeting with Iraq’s Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari.

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• 25 October

  PKK leader says he could convince militants to return home

  The imprisoned leader of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has said he could convince the PKK militants who are currently taking shelter in mountain bases in northern Iraq to return home as part of the settlement process aimed at ending the three-decades-old Kurdish question and terrorism problem.

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• 25 October

  Lebanese PM calls for stopping violence in Tripoli

  Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam on Friday called on relevant authorities to take all necessary measures to halt the ongoing violence and fighting in the northern city of Tripoli. Salam, in a press release, urged for firm action to put an end “to the drastic deterioration

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• 25 October

  Turkey to consider other bids if China defence deal fails

  Turkey would be open to new offers for a missile defence system if a deal agreed with a Chinese firm under U.S. sanctions falls through, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan was quoted on Friday as saying. The NATO member’s decision to co-produce the long-range air and missile defence system with China Precision Machinery

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• 25 October

  Tunisian PM pledges to step down to rescue talks

  Tunisia’s Islamist premier Ali Larayedh made a written pledge to step down in a last-ditch bid to rescue crisis talks on Friday that the opposition was threatening to boycott. The national dialogue aims to end months of political deadlock between the government and the mainly secular opposition that has paralysed Tunisia’s political …

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• 25 October

  Serbia condemns Turkish PM statements over Kosovo

  Serbia has condemned statements made by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during a speech given in Kosovo on Oct. 23, saying such words “cannot be received as friendly.”

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