1845 cases against the Turks who insult Erdoğan were put in the country since the beginning of his presidential mandate in 2014, Bekir Bozdağ, Turkish Minister of Justice stated in the Parliament, “Armenpress” reports citing Pravda.ru website.
On March 2 embassy of Armenia participated in annual Vienna “Vodka Festival”. Except Armenia, Russia, Austria, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Moldova, Mongolia, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia also introduced vodkas, produced in their countries.
Armenian National Committee of Georgia reports on the adoption of H.R. 1580 “Honoring and Recognizing the Nagorno Karabakh Republic” in the Georgia State House.
Delegation of NATO’s International Staff was in Armenia for the assessment of the package of Armenia-NATO Individual Partnership Action Plan (PAP) and Planning and Review Process.
“First and foremost we’re satisfied with NATO-Armenia developments. Today we have history of 20-year relations. Armenia assumes long-term commitments to participate in NATO peacekeeping missions in Afghanistan. On account of Armenia’s security challenges, Armenia’ benefit is influential, we welcome long-term commitments assumed by you,” Elgersma said.
Two female militants were killed by police when they fired shots and threw a grenade at a Turkish police bus in Istanbul on March 3, local media and the Istanbul governor said.
Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian visited the Yerevan State University on March 3, where he attended the meeting of the Scientific Council of the University, during which he was awarded the honorary title of professor by Academic Council of Yerevan State University.
The latest racist announcement made by Prime Minister of Turkey Ahmet Davutoğlu has become subject for broad discussions. Garo Paylan, Armenian member of the Turkish parliament from Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) severely criticized the Prime Minister during the discussion of the budgets of the ministries of Interior, Health, Culture and Tourism, the Turkish Demokrathaber.net informed about this.
“We often think in NATO that this leads to a cold war, especially when we combine a few components: Russia’s defence budget grows, utmost importance is given to the military component on state level, we don’t know how to respond to them, but we’re working on it. In any case, we are for the concept of collective security, we want to cooperate in air, sea and land. We consider to further respect our fundamental relations with Russia, we keep the dialogue open with Russia.
The overwhelming majority of Russian citizens intend to vote for Russian President Vladimir Putin in the upcoming presidential election.
