The Trump Organization, Donald Trump’s property development company, and Silk Road Group (SRG), Trump Tower Batumi’s Georgian developer, issued a joint statement on January 6, announcing their decision to formally end the development of Trump Tower Batumi, a 47-storey luxury residential condominium in Black Sea resort town of Batumi, Georgia....

January, 08, 2017 -Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei in a message on Sunday expressed his deep condolences on the demise of the Chairman of Iran's Expediency Council Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Ayatollah Khamenei in his message condoled with the bereaved family of Hashemi Rafsanjani on the "sudden demise of an old ...

Monday, January 9, 2017, The death of Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, one of the key founding figures of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, shocked Iranians, leaving a huge grief in the hearts of the Iranian people and the Islamic Revolution followers. Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, the Head of the Expediency Council and Iran’s former president from ...

India and Kazakhstan signed an agreement to amend a 20 year old bilateral tax treaty on January 6. Under the deal, information exchanged between the two countries can be shared with other law enforcement agencies. The protocol to amend the existing tax treaty between the two countries provides internationally-accepted standards for effective exchange ...

Silk Way, the capital’s new shopping and entertainment centre located at the EXPO 2017 site, was launched in December. The official opening is planned for the first quarter of 2017. The complex is completely ready and tenants are preparing for the opening, Mega Centre Management Communication Department representative Takhmina Kibirova told ...

January, 05, 2017- Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman described recent remarks by Turkish officials on Syria as “unconstructive”, urging Ankara to refrain from making the situation in the Arab country more complicated. “Unconstructive remarks by Turkish officials will merely further complicate the current situation and add to ...

First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan has met with Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to the Republic of Tajikistan Mohammad Gul Zalmai Younusi here in Dushanbe on January 5, MFA Information Department reported. According to the ministry’s message, during the meeting the two parties had an exchange ...

Jan. 6, Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev during his working visit to China, met with Chairman of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping, the President's press service reports. During the meeting the sides discussed the issues of cooperation between Kyrgyzstan and China, the implementation of joint projects in various spheres and prospects ...

On 5 January, the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoev held a telephone conversation with the Acting President of the Republic of Korea Hwang Kyo-ahn at the initiative of the Korean side. Hwang Kyo-ahn congratulated Shavkat Mirziyoev with a convincing victory in the December 2016 presidential elections. The two sides exchanged ...

7 January - Kazakhstan has proceeded to performance of its obligation to OPEC, "Astana" TV channel informed with reference to the RoK Ministry of Energy.         As explained by the Director of the Department of Development of Oil Industry Kuandyk Kulmurzin, since January the country has reduced oil production level by ...

6 January , The U.S. Embassy in Astana has issued a statement regarding further service of U.S. Ambassador George Krol to Kazakhstan.     “On January 5, The New York Times reported on an order for U.S. ambassadors to leave their posts by January 20.  That order only affects non career political appointees, not career ambassadors....

August 9, 2016 , Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has called for efforts to resolve all regional disputes through dialog and diplomacy. Rouhani said Iran pays particular attention to the expansion of ties with the regional countries. "The development of all-out relations with neighboring countries is one of the priorities of Iran's foreign ...

The leaders of Russia and Turkey have patched up a damaging quarrel, pledging to restore close economic relations. Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russian trade sanctions on Turkey would be phased out "step by step". "The priority is to get back to the pre-crisis level of co-operation," he told Turkish President Recep Tayyip ...

The Turkish president slammed the West saying leaders had "not done enough" to offer support to Ankara following the coup which left 294 people dead. He said: "We are struggling against a coup attempt, against terrorists. The Western world must understand what we are dealing with.” Turkish media has also accused Obama’s ...

Until Friday afternoon, Turkey remained a competent and stable, if problematic, country that served as a buffer between Europe and the imploding Middle East and a partner for the United States. It suffered from terrorist attacks like European countries, and shared a world where solidarity could be demonstrated by Facebook posts and projecting the Turkish ...

Turkey’s prime minister, Binali Yıldırım, has declared an attempted coup by a military faction to be over, calling it a “black stain” on the country’s democracy and pledging harsh punishment for those involved. After a night of chaos and bloodshed, Yıldırım said the government would consider reintroducing the death penalty,...

Iran’s foreign minister has expressed his concern on the developments in Turkey in his last tweet. “Stability, democracy & safety of Turkish people are paramount. Unity & prudence are imperative,” tweeted Foreign Minister Zarif. Iran’s Secretary of National Security Council Ali Shamkhani also stated “Iran is ...

On Friday afternoon, an as-yet unidentified faction of the Turkish military launched a coup attempt aimed at toppling President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government. The coup leaders, claiming to speak for the entire Turkish Armed Forces, said they’d done so in the name of protecting democracy — despite the fact that Erdogan and his ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has flown in to Istanbul, after an army group said it took over the country. He was seen surrounded by supporters, and said the coup attempt was an "act of treason" in a live TV speech. Forty-two people died during overnight clashes in the capital, Ankara, most of them civilians, the prosecutor'...

On Thursday July 7, Tajik First Deputy Foreign Minister, Nizomiddin Zohidi, received Mr. Ozcan Gultekin, Charge D'affaires, Turkish Embassy in Dushanbe. According to the Tajik MFA information department, the two exchanged views on cooperation between Tajikistan and Turkey in combating international terrorism and extremism and further cooperation ...