Section: Turkey
Turkey neighboring three regions in crisis, chief of staff says
Chief of General Staff Hulusi Akar has said Turkey is the only NATO member country that is neighboring three crisis areas, namely Syria, Iraq and Ukraine, speaking at NATO’s Military Committee conference in Istanbul late on Sept. 12 …read more Source: Hurriyet Daily...
Ukraine has ‘long way to go’ on gay rights: Elton John
Veteran British rockstar Elton John on Sept. 12 said Ukraine still had “a long way to go” in its treatment of the gay, bisexual and transgender community at a conference in Kyiv …read more Source: Hurriyet Daily...
German FM: Ukraine cease-fire must be ‘consolidated’
Putin, Poroshenko, Merkel and Hollande will meet on Oct. 2 in Paris to discuss Ukrainian conflict …read more Source: Anadolu...
Top officials hail ‘progress’ on Ukraine deal
Normandy Format FMs praise progress toward resolution of conflict in eastern Ukraine …read more Source: World...
Russia’s Putin welcomes Ukraine ceasefire
Both Ukrainian and rebel forces have blamed each other for repeated ceasefire breaches but both sides are now broadly respecting a new ceasefire that came into effect on Sept. 1. …read more Source: World...
Poroshenko says Ukraine truce holding despite Russia ‘threat’
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told an international conference Sept. 11 that Russia remained a threat to the “entire democratic world” but that he held out hope a new truce with pro-Moscow insurgents would hold …read more Source: Hurriyet Daily...
Putin, Berlusconi meet up in Crimea
Former Italian Prime Minister arrived in Russia-annexed Crimea for ‘private visit’ …read more Source: World...
Ukraine’s pro-Russia rebels target media in propaganda war
Yana Agafonova, a media official in the pro-Russian rebel government in eastern Ukraine, says critical publications are not welcome in the separatist region, which is locked in a vicious propaganda war with Kyiv …read more Source: Hurriyet Daily...
Ukraine: Minsk cease-fire signatories to meet on Oct. 2
Putin, Poroshenko, Merkel and Hollande spoke on the phone Wednesday night …read more Source: Anadolu...
NATO’s top commanders meet in Istanbul to discuss Ukraine, Syria
NATO’s highest military authority, the Military Committee, will convene in Istanbul for a three-day session starting Sept. 11 to review security challenges in Europe and the Middle East, as well as ongoing operations in Afghanistan …read more Source: Hurriyet Daily...
