Section: Turkey
Top Europe rights body sends team to Crimea
Europe’s top human rights body has sent a delegation to Crimea to assess the situation in the strategic peninsula annexed by Russia from Ukraine in 2014, officials said on Jan. 25 …read more Source: Hurriyet Daily...
Europe’s top rights body sends team to Crimea
‘The mission will be conducted with full independence and will not deal with any issue related to the territorial status of Crimea,’ Council of Europe Secretary General says …read more Source: World...
Russian GDP fell 3.7 percent in 2015
Russia, whose economy has already been pushed into recession by low oil prices and Western sanctions over Ukraine, has been rocked by the fresh fall in oil prices and officials have come under increasing pressure to react …read more Source: World...
Ukraine sticks Russia with massive gas bill
Eastern European country demands $3.5 billion from Russian Gazprom for abusing the ‘monopoly status’ it enjoys on gas transits …read more Source: World...
Football: Besiktas sign Ukrainian goalkeeper
Moved from Dnipro, Boyko inks 4.5-year-contract with Turkish club …read more Source: Anadolu...
Top French, German envoys in Ukraine for peace talks
Envoys arrive in Kyiv in the midst of a diplomatic upsurge in efforts to resolve one of Europe’s deadliest crises since the Balkans war of the 1990s …read more Source: World...
Russia’s Gazprom demands $2.5bn from Ukraine
‘Taking this (minimum level) into account and the volume of gas delivered by Gazprom to Ukraine in the third quarter of 2015, Naftogaz Ukraine has been sent a bill for $2.549 billion,’ Russian state gas company’s statement says …read more Source: World...
Foreign monitors under fire in east Ukraine
An OSCE vehicle carrying observers and a translator who were in an Ukraine controlled area to assess a damaged pipelline came under fire. …read more Source: World...
US, Kremlin officials meet at Russian border for Ukraine talks
The meeting came amid an apparent international push to shore up the brittle truce amid sporadic fighting in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: World...
Lavrov and Kerry to meet in Zurich over Syria talks, Ukraine
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet in Zurich on next week for talks on Syria and Ukraine …read more Source: Hurriyet Daily...
