The UN refugee agency UNHCR has said that more than 5 million people have fled Syria during its six-year conflict. It called on the international community to do more to help them.
“What are they doing in the Persian Gulf?” Questioned the minister, ‘They’d better leave the region not to make trouble for the countries in the region.
Laywers for detained German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yucel have lodged an appeal against his arrest with Turkey’s Constitutional Court. Yucel’s arrest last month has strained ties between Ankara and Berlin.
“The decision has been taken to halt the unfair competition activities of Booking.com. in a case brought by Tursab,” the Association of Turkish Travel Agencies, Tursab said in a statement on its website.
“If something threatening our security happens in the future, regarding Daesh or something else, then this will be a new operation. Operation Euphrates Shield has ended, and any other future operations will be named differently.”
The construction of Armenian-Iranian railway is still being discussed. Vahan Martirosyan, Minister of Transport, Communication and Information Technologies, said there is a concession contract with a company within the framework of which discussions are being held with investors and that company.
Overall 4704 foreigners are imprisoned in Turkish penitentiaries. According to the ministry the number of foreign inmates has increased by 150% in 8 years.
“Maybe by this the Armenian side sends a message to its Eurasian partners, which violate CSTO provisions. Russia may interfere with these issues, however, Russia-Kazakhstan and Russia-Belarus relations currently aren’t in a condition that Russia attempted to urge decisions to these countries regarding Armenia,” Felgenhauer said.
The Istanbul republican prosecution issued arrest warrants for 8 people within the framework of the investigation on Istanbul-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink’s murder, Hurriyet reports. It is reported that the suspects have been remanded in custody for being “members of an armed terrorist group” and “attempting to violate constitutional order”.
Over 800 Georgian citizens departed for European countries on the first day the visafree regime came into force, Sputnik News reports. Nearly 300 people from Tbilisi departed for Athens, Warsaw and Munich, and about 500 people departed for Budapest, Thessaloniki and Larnaca from Kutaisi International Airport.
