Sinan Oğan from Ata Alliance, who received 5 percent of the votes in the first round of the presidential elections, is expected to announce his decision of who he will extend his support to in the upcoming presidential runoff on May 22, hurriyetdailynews reports. Oğan met President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan while Ata Alliance leader…
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili announced a boycott of Georgian Airways for resuming flights to Russia. She stated that she would no longer use the services of this airline and called on other citizens to join her. “I’m boycotting Airzena (Georgian Airways)”– Zurabishvili said at a briefing. She noted that the airline is…
During the bilateral meeting with Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Chairman of the Caucasus Muslims Office Sheikhulislam Allahshukur Pashazade once again expressed his gratitude to him for his activities aimed at preventing the long-standing conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan from turning into a religious one, as well as for restoring mutual trust in…
Deputy Minister of Economy Narek Teryan has held a meeting with representatives of the Iranian Talashgarane Eghtesade Paydar Holding. The ethnic-Armenian Member of Parliament of Iran Robert Beglaryan also attended the meeting. Teryan presented the state support mechanisms in the economic sector, the legislation, tax and customs regulations, the ministry said in a…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an interview with CNN on Friday that he will not run for a third presidential term if he is re-elected. “According to the current regulations, the President can be elected only twice. My first term has ended, now the elections for the second term are underway. If I…
On Friday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will meet with colleagues from Armenia and Azerbaijan, Ministers of Foreign Affairs Ararat Mirzoyan and Jeyhun Bayramov, in Moscow to discuss repairing relations between Baku and Yerevan, TASS reports. A separate Armenian-Azerbaijani meeting will be conducted to discuss the chances for a peace pact. The ministers will…
The meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan and Russia Jeyhun Bayramov and Sergey Lavrov has started in Moscow. It takes place in the reception house of the Russian Foreign Ministry. A bilateral meeting between Ararat Mirzoyan and Sergey Lavrov will follow this meeting. A trilateral meeting with the participation of the Foreign…
Reuters. Turkish presidential candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu on Wednesday (May 17) accused President Tayyip Erdogan of cooperating with a network Ankara considers terrorists and allowing unchecked migration, marking a sharp turn in his rhetoric ahead of a runoff vote. Kilicdaroglu, who led a more positive campaign in the lead-up to presidential and parliamentary elections on…
A chair was spotted flying off a high rise building in the capital Ankara during a storm on May 17. In the footage showing the moments of chair flying, the furniture hits another building, the Demirören News Agency reported. Due to the wind, which reached 45 kilometers per hour, many trees fell and roofs…
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, does not consider the situation created around the interaction between the Russian Federation and Turkey in the South Caucasus to be homogeneous. In the briefing, the diplomat said that there are points of contact, but there are also points on which the positions of Russia…
The National Security Service has seized over a ton of cocaine smuggled into Armenia from Ecuador. The cocaine with a street value of over €250 million was smuggled into the country in a shipment of goods ordered by an Armenian fruit importing company from a company in Ecuador. The shipment made its way…
The US State Department has warned Georgia about possible “additional measures” due to the resumption of flights with Russia. The corresponding statement was made on Tuesday by Deputy Press Secretary of the US State Department Vedant Patel. “If there are direct flights between Russia and Georgia, this will cause increasing concern not only on…
Sinan Oğan, a minor presidential contender who surprised Turkey with his performance in the country’s groundbreaking elections on Sunday, seeks firm assurances to endorse a candidate in the upcoming run-off vote, Daily Sabah reports. “We have some preconditions,” Oğan told German Press Agency (DPA) at his Ankara office, singling out fighting terrorism and the…
Josep Borrell, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy referred to his meeting with Azerbaijani foreign minister Jeyhun Bayramov. “Good exchange with FM (of Azerbaijan) Jeyhun Bayramov. Welcomed resumption of trilateral meetings hosted by Charles Michel, discussed its outcomes and way forward and exchanged views on EU-Azerbaijan relations. The EU…
Baku has accused the head of the European Union delegation in Armenia, Andrea Wictorin, of interfering in Azerbaijan’s internal affairs. Azerbaijani MFA spokesman Aykhan Hajizada considered unacceptable the statement of the EU Ambassador to Armenia Andrea Wictorin that Azerbaijan should ensure the rights and security of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh, and an international mechanism…
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov met with the European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell. Jafar Huseynzada, the representative of Azerbaijan to NATO, wrote about this on Twitter. It is noted that the meeting took place in Brussels.
Javier Colomina, advisor to the NATO Secretary General on North Caucasus and Central Asia, commented on the Pashinyan-Michel-Aliyev tripartite meeting held in Brussels. “Encouraging news from the fifth meeting between Nikol Pashinyan and President of Azerbaijan hosted today in Brussels by the European Council President, following last week’s talks by foreign ministers in Washington. NATO…
The Turkish foreign minister on Friday called on opposition presidential candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu to produce evidence to back his allegations that Russia was interfering in Turkey’s elections. “Kılıçdaroğlu must first say ‘no one should interfere’ (in elections). If there is any information or a document, he needs to say it,” Çavuşoğlu told Anadolu. Çavuşoğlu ‘s…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed that he will not allow the opposition to lambast Russia and its President Vladimir Putin. He said it during a speech in Istanbul Friday, addressing opposition leader Kemal Kılıchdaroğlu, who previously claimed that Russia interferes in the Turkish elections. “You [Kılıchdaroğlu] have to excuse me, but I will not…
Ahead of the presidential elections in Turkey, the united opposition candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu appealed to the current President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Fox TV. “I want to tell Erdogan that we are going to elections, not to war. Turkey should be the only winner in the elections. Both the opposition and the government perform their…
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has published another bulletin of the activities of the Russian peacekeeping troops in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone. “There was one violation of the ceasefire regime in Askeran, there were no casualties or injuries. The command of the Russian peacekeeping troops is conducting an investigation with the Azerbaijani…
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian had a telephone conversation with his French counterpart Catherine Colonna. Abdollahian, pointing out the deep cultural and historical relations between the two countries, positively evaluated France’s approach to Iran, ISNA agency writes. During the telephone conversation, the parties talked about bilateral relations, the Israeli-Palestinian issue, cooperation between Iran and…
On May 12, 2023, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov received special representative of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation for the normalization of Azerbaijan-Armenia relations, Igor Khovaev. During the meeting, the process of normalization of Azerbaijan-Armenia relations, negotiations on the peace agreement, as well as the current situation…
The United States Department of State has commented on the May 11 Azerbaijani attack on Armenia, stating that ‘this kind of violence’ undermines the progress made by the two countries during their talks. State Department Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel said at a May 11 press briefing that “this kind of violence, we believe…
Iranian Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance Ehsan Khandouzi has arrived in the Saudi port city of Jeddah IRNA reports. At the head of a delegation, Khandouzi arrived in Saudi Arabia on Thursday. The minister is the first Islamic Republic official who visits the Arab country after the recent agreement on resumption of…
Russia is acting as a mediator in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and expects restraint from Armenia and Azerbaijan, Press secretary of the Russian President, Dmitry Peskov said. According to him, Moscow will continue contacts with the parties. “Russia will continue to carry out the functions provided by the trilateral documents and calls to avoid…
Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili urged the government to publicly convene the National Security Council and debate the imposition of 3-month visas with Russia, Georgian Public Broadcaster reports. At the briefing to respond to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s move exempting Georgian citizens from visa requirements and lifting a ban on direct flights, President Zourabichvili said Russia’s…
A four-party meeting between the foreign ministers of Russia, Syria, Turkey and Iran, Sergey Lavrov, Faisal Mekdad, Mevlut Cavusoglu and Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, kicked off in Moscow on Wednesday, a TASS correspondent reports. Before this meeting, Cavusoglu said that he was hoping to discuss with his colleagues, among other issues, the return of Syrian refugees…
Baku and Yerevan have taken a step forward in the negotiations that took place in the US last week, but the negotiation process should be approached realistically, said the minister of foreign affairs of Azerbaijan. “[From May 1 to 4] quite intensive discussions of the peace agreement took place [in Washington], which included a…
It is of the utmost priority for the European Union (EU) to help secure the ammunition that Ukraine needs, said European Commission (EC) President Ursula von der Leyen during a press conference on Tuesday, Reuters reports. The EC President arrived in Kiev on the day for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, with a…
