October 28, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Turkey
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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October 25, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News
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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October 25, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
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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October 25, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Turkey
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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October 25, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Turkey
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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October 25, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
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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October 25, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Turkey
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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October 25, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News
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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October 25, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Serbia, Turkey
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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October 25, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Turkey
U.N.-Arab League Syria envoy Lakhdar Brahimi held a series of talks with senior Turkish officials in Ankara over the planned Geneva peace talks to end the ongoing civil war.
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