Category: Caucasus
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]