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 ...
July 09 2016, Iran’s ambassador to Ankara highlighted the significant role that Iran and Turkey can play together in coordinating the fight on terrorism and extremism in the region.
“Effective battle against terrorism and extremism comes through the unity of Islamic countries,” Mohammad Ebrahim Taherian said, stressing ...
July 7 , Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Angela Merkel will pay official visit to Kyrgyzstan on July 13-14 at the invitation of Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev.
During the visit, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Almazbek Atambayev will discuss a wide range of issues related to the state and prospects of further ...
4 July, A consortium of Hyundai, LG (South Korea) and Toyo (Japan) companies successfully continues the work on construction of a gas chemical plant in the Balkan region of Turkmenistan, the Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper reported.
“Implementation of this unique project will make it possible to provide not only domestic needs of the country ...
Differences over legal status thwarted attempts to temporarily reopen road link to Russia via breakaway South Ossetia upon Armenia’s request, Georgia’s PM Giorgi Kvirikashvili said on Friday.
800-meter long section of the road in the Dariali gorge in an immediate vicinity of the Kazbegi-Zemo Larsi border-crossing point in the northern ...
Terms of participation of Russian Railways OJSC in the financing of the Rasht-Astara (Iran)-Astara (Azerbaijan) railway line have been discussed in Baku, head of the press-service of Azerbaijan Railways OJSC Nadir Azmammadov told Trend July 2.
The discussions were held during the trilateral meeting of the representatives of the railways of Azerbaijan,...
July 1, A group of extremists detained in a special operation in Kazakhstan's Karaganda region were planning an attack on a Russian military unit near the city of Balkhash, a source in Kazakhtan's security services said Friday.
"They were planning to attack the Russian military unit…after the attack, the detained were planning ...
Russian and German Foreign Ministers Sergey Lavrov and Frank-Walter Steinmeier talked over phone and discussed the prospects for advancing the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement, as well as the work in the Normandy format for the implementation of the Minsk agreements, said the Russian foreign ministry, RIA Novosti reported July 2.
"The ministers ...
June 30, President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev took part in the ceremony of swearing in new members of the Kyrgyz Government, the Kyrgyz President's press service reports.
The newly appointed Vice Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan Zhenish Razakov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan Erlan Abdyldaev, Minister of Internal Affairs of Kyrgyzstan ...
Recent remarks by Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan about political and economic costs of tensions in bilateral relations between Russia and Turkey and a subsequent letter sent to Russian President Vladimir Putin to congratulate him on the occasion of Russia’s national day were indicative of the Turkish side’s determination ...
Heads of state from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) are to meet in Uzbekistan’s capital city of Tashkent on June 23-24, 2016. Last year, India and Pakistan were admitted to the SCO as two observer members through approval of six SCO members and they will become full members after relevant documents are approved by the two countries’...
July, 02, 2016 , Establishing direct banking relations between Tehran and Ashgabat is a priority for Iran in line with efforts to boost trade ties between the two countries, the Iranian commercial attaché to Turkmenistan said.
Ramatollah Khormali said launching direct banking ties between Iran and Turkmenistan and facilitation of visa issuance ...
July 1, 2016, Italian company, Salini Impregilo S.p.A., has reportedly won a tender for construction of the dam of the Roghun hydroelectric power plant (HPP).
Roghun HPP is an embankment dam in the preliminary stages of construction on the Vakhsh River in southern Tajikistan. It is one of the planned hydroelectric power plants of Vakhsh Cascade. ...
July 1, 2016, On Friday July 1, Tajik President received Mr. Pietro Salini, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Salini Impregilo S.p.A., which will build the dam of the Roghun hydroelectric power plant (HPP) in southern Tajikistan.
According to the Tajik president’s official website, the two sides discussed issues related to cooperation in the ...
July 1, 2016, The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the Global Energy Interconnection Development and Cooperation Organization (GEIDCO) have affirmed their commitment to work together to facilitate increased regional cooperation, integration and environmentally sustainable transboundary power interconnection ...
