Section: Hurriyet Daily News (Turkey)
Pro-Russia rebels cement hold on disputed Ukraine airport
Pro-Russian rebels cemented their hold Friday on a long-disputed airport ceded by Ukrainian troops during an upsurge in clashes that killed nearly 50 people and punctured Europe’s latest push for peace in the nine-month war …read more Source: Hurriyet Daily...
Bus shelling in Ukraine’s Donetsk kills 13: official
Shelling hit a trolleybus in war-torn east Ukraine’s Donetsk on Jan. 22 and killed at least 13 people, an official said, hours after peace talks in Berlin called for a ceasefire. …read more Source: Hurriyet Daily...
Russia, US quarrel over Kyiv, converge on Syria
Moscow hits back at US president’s remarks that accused Russia of bullying against Ukraine, but welcomed his words that prioritized the removal of Islamists instead of the removal of al-Assad in Syria …read more Source: Hurriyet Daily...
Five civilians dead as fresh battles rock east Ukraine’s Donetsk
Fresh clashes between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels rocked Donetsk in the country’s war-torn east Jan. 21, killing at least five civilians …read more Source: Hurriyet Daily...
Ukraine’s military says troops retake most of Donetsk airport from rebels
Ukrainian troops launched a “mass operation” overnight retaking almost all the territory of Donetsk airport in eastern Ukraine lost to separatists in recent weeks, military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said on Jan. 18. …read more Source: Hurriyet Daily...
Fighting in east Ukraine kills 11, including six soldiers: officials
Fierce fighting in east Ukraine has killed at least 11 people over the past 24 hours, officials said Jan. 16, as government forces and pro-Russian rebels battled for control of an airport. …read more Source: Hurriyet Daily...
Gazprom warns EU to link to Turkey pipeline or lose Russian gas
‘The Turkish Stream is the only route along which 63 billion cubic meters of Russian gas can be supplied, which at present transit Ukraine. There are no other options,’ Gazprom chief Alexei Miller says …read more Source: Hurriyet Daily...
Russia does not keep its promises over Crimea: Turkey
Turkey accused Russia of not keeping the promises it has given reagarding Crimean Tatars’ rights and announced that it will send a delegation to monitor developments in the region …read more Source: Hurriyet Daily...
No Ukraine summit without progress on peace plan, Merkel tells Putin
Merkel told Putin on the phone on Jan. 10 that a four-way summit to discuss the situation in eastern Ukraine would not take place until there was real progress on the Minsk peace plan …read more Source: Hurriyet Daily...
Nationalist march shows Ukraine ‘on Nazi path’: Moscow
A torch-lit march held in Kyiv to honor a controversial anti-Soviet resistance leader shows Ukraine is following in the footsteps of the Nazis, a senior Russian foreign ministry official said Jan. 2. …read more Source: Hurriyet Daily...
