Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday approved Finland’s accession to NATO after months of talks, but added that discussions with Sweden will continue, CNBC reports. “We have decided to initiate the ratification of Finland’s accession process to NATO in our parliament,” Erdogan said in Ankara, according to a Reuters translation, as he met his…
An official report released on Friday estimated that the twin earthquakes that hit southern Turkey on Feb. 6 cost approximately 2 trillion Turkish liras (about 105.2 billion U.S. dollars) for the country. The report, announced by Turkey’s Treasury and Finance Ministry and prepared by the presidency’s department of strategy and budget, predicted that the financial…
During the previous day, the Russian peacekeeping troops recorded two violations of the ceasefire regime in Martuni and Shushi regions, Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh). There were no casualties. This is stated in the official bulletin of the Ministry of Defense of Russia. “According to these facts, the command of the Russian peacekeeping force is conducting a joint…
