The Female Mayors of Asian Countries
Virginia Raggi has been selected as Rome’s first female mayor. Raggi, a lawyer with a three-year stint as a city councilwoman, took 67.2% of the vote and she promised to work to bring “legality and transparency” to Rome’s City Hall. According to researches, currently, fewer than 5% of the world’s mayors are women and women […]
Moscow, Ankara discuss construction of two lines of Turkish Stream
Russia and Turkey are discussing the construction of two lines of the pipeline Turkish Stream, one of which is to supply gas to Europe, Energy Minister Alexander Novak said in an interview with Rossiya 24 TV channel on July 29, TASS reports. “Overall, we are currently talking about the construction of two lines. The second line is for European customers, […]
Turkey loses $209 mln 2016 due to food embargo
Turkey lost $209 mln in the Q1 of 2016 due to the Russian food embargo on imports of certain food items imports to the country, Russia’s Economic Development Ministry said in its report for January – June 2016, TASS reports. “Import of goods prohibited from January 1, 2016, to enter the Russian Federation from Turkey, […]
Azerbaijan allocates $850M for refinery construction in Turkey
Azerbaijani State Oil Fund (SOFAZ) has allocated $844 million as of July 1, 2016, as part of the country’s financing the project of construction of a new oil refinery of Azerbaijan’s SOCAR in Turkey, SOFAZ told Trend. In accordance with the decree of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on additional measures to support the participation of […]
87% of Turkey’s Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway section ready
87% of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway has been constructed in Turkey, the Turkish minister of transport, shipping and communications, Ahmet Arslan said, Vestnik Kavkaza reports. “The BTK is being constructed on the schedule,” the minister said, adding that two bridges are being built over the Kars river. The minister stressed that the BTK railway project […]
Leading Turkish historian Halil İnalcık dies at age 100
Prof. Halil İnalcık dubbed as ‘the professor of professors’, one of the most respected historians in Turkey, passed away Monday in Ankara at 100-years-old, Daily Sabah reports. Early life and education İnalcık was born on Sept. 7, 1916, in Istanbul. His father Seyit Osman Nuri Bey and his mother Ayşe Bahriye Hanım were Crimean migrants. […]
Broadcast of Azerbaijan’s ANS TV channel temporarily suspended
Azerbaijan’s National Council for Television and Radio has temporarily suspended the broadcast of ANS TV channel taking into account the appeal of the Prosecutor General’s Office, Trend reports. The decision was made in order to prevent the open propaganda of terrorism and sabotage aimed at deteriorating the strategic partnership relations between Azerbaijan and Turkey. The […]
Armenia: Armed men seize Yerevan police station
Armed men have seized a police station in Armenia’s capital, Yerevan, and taken an unknown number of hostages on Sunday morning, the country’s security service said, Al Jazeera reports. Deputy police chief Artur Vanoyan was killed and three officers were wounded during the armed takeover of the station, first deputy of Armenia’s national police force […]
Erdogan, Putin to meet in first week of August
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has arranged to meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin within weeks, Turkish presidential sources said Sunday, Trend reported. The agreement came in a telephone call from Putin in which he gave his support to Turkey following Friday’s attempted coup. According to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, the Russian […]
Georgia and Japan to implement common project
The Project for Provision of Medical Equipment to Georgia Red Cross Primary Health Clinic in Dedoplistskaro (Georgia), which was implemented within the framework of “Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects” of the Government of Japan. The Opening Ceremony was held in the town of Dedoplistskaro (Georgia) on 8 July 2016. According to official press-release […]
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