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26 December 2009 [12:43]
Turkey's parliament on Friday concluded 12-day-long budget talks and approved the government’s 2010 financial plan, which totals 286.9 billion Turkish Liras.
26 December 2009 [12:20]
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26 December 2009 [11:45]
Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan believes that the dynamics of the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process will not change next year.
26 December 2009 [11:07]
26 December 2009 [10:40]
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25 December 2009 [18:56]
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says some Western countries are using Iran's nuclear program as a pretext to put pressure on the Islamic Republic, Press TV reported.
25 December 2009 [18:45]
Three Turkish citizens accused of spying for foreign country was sent to court on Friday in Izmir.
25 December 2009 [18:23]
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan signed 2010 budget on Dec. 25, Armenian Presidential Press Office reported.
25 December 2009 [17:56]
Turkish SU TV television starts broadcasting news in western Armenian.
25 December 2009 [17:25]
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman says the Saudi Embassy in Tehran has confirmed they are holding a woman they claim to be Osama Bin Laden's daughter.
25 December 2009 [17:14]
Turkey has said that a Belgian court ruling dismissing terrorism charges against six Turkish suspects was a disappointment.
25 December 2009 [16:53]
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says his country does not consider Iran's advanced missiles a threat.
25 December 2009 [16:30]
Iran's foreign minister says Turkey could be a venue for Tehran to exchange nuclear material with the West.
25 December 2009 [14:40]
Special operation to detain employees of the Ministry of Economy was conducted in Georgia, 18 officials arrested.
25 December 2009 [14:10]
Four swine flu cases have been registered in Azerbaijan’s occupied lands.
25 December 2009 [14:00]
25 December 2009 [13:35]
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25 December 2009 [12:55]
25 December 2009 [12:40]
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25 December 2009 [11:55]
Namik Tan became Turkey's new Ambassador in Washington D.C, United States on Dec. 24.
25 December 2009 [11:15]
25 December 2009 [10:43]
Turkey's Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a telephone conversation with his Spanish counterpart Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on Thursday.
25 December 2009 [10:35]
25 December 2009 [10:05]
Cüneyt Gökçer, one of Turkey’s most distinguished and prolific stage actors, revered for his performances of Shakespearean characters, died on Wednesday in Ankara. He was 89.
25 December 2009 [09:50]
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says some Western countries are using Iran's nuclear program as a pretext to put pressure on the Islamic Republic.
25 December 2009 [09:35]
24 December 2009 [18:55]
24 December 2009 [18:50]
A Turkish court Thursday charged a 25-year-old man for the murder of a local journalist in the northwestern town of Bandırma last week.
24 December 2009 [18:30]
Turkish President Gul released a message to mark the Christian world's Christmas.
24 December 2009 [17:56]
The office of the chief of General Staff has denied allegations that two military officers were plotting against Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç.
24 December 2009 [17:43]
24 December 2009 [17:30]
A man, around 60 years of age, attempted to commit suicide by slitting his neck with a razor in front of the government building in central Yerevan today.
24 December 2009 [17:25]
Turkey's foreign minister and chief negotiator for European Union met in Ankara on Thursday to discuss membership bid.
24 December 2009 [17:15]
Prime Minister of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Dervis Eroglu, has arrived in Turkish capital of Ankara on Thursday.
24 December 2009 [16:35]
24 December 2009 [16:25]
24 December 2009 [16:15]
The Upper Lars checkpoint on the Georgia-Russia border will likely open in March, Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Nino Kalandadze said today at a briefing in Tbilisi.
24 December 2009 [15:50]
The National Assembly of Armenia (parliament) will not discuss the protocols on normalization of relations with Turkey unless they are ratified by Turkish parliament, Armenian parliament's Speaker Ovik Abrahamyan said.
24 December 2009 [15:45]
A regional governor said on Thursday that Turkey would open an Armenian church in an eastern city to worship in 2010.
24 December 2009 [15:40]
Trial of the French national, Clotilde Reiss, who is currently on trial on charges of action against Iran's national security, will continue for one more session, her attorney Mohammad Ali Mahdavi Sabet announced.
24 December 2009 [15:20]
24 December 2009 [15:13]
As of December 23, a total of 107 swine flu cases, including two deaths are registered in Armenia, the Assistant to Armenian Health Minister Shushan Hunanyan said.
24 December 2009 [14:51]
A senior Republican senator is urging the Obama administration and European allies to consider rearming Georgia, an action that would inevitably upset Russia.
24 December 2009 [14:17]
24 December 2009 [14:03]
24 December 2009 [13:48]
Tbilisi City Court has chosen a measure of two-month detention for another man participating in explosion of Glory Memorial in Kutaisi - Chief of the mobile station "Georvzrivprom" Elguja Gadabadze.
24 December 2009 [13:43]
A candidate to host the Euro 2016 European soccer event, Turkey introduced its championship logo yesterday at a meeting attended by State Minister for Sports Faruk Nafiz Özak and Turkish Soccer Federation (TFF) Chairman Mahmut Özgener.
24 December 2009 [13:10]
Armenia is dissatisfied with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's stance on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
24 December 2009 [12:59]
Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani said on Wednesday that Israel has been upset by the growing cooperation between Iran and Egypt.
24 December 2009 [12:25]
24 December 2009 [12:20]
24 December 2009 [12:20]
Iran's president says the Copenhagen climate change summit proved to the international community that world powers are not prepared to make any changes to save the planet.
24 December 2009 [12:04]
A recent thaw in Turkish-Syrian relations is not a sign of a policy shift but simply normalization, the visiting Turkish prime minister said Wednesday in the Syrian capital of Damascus.
24 December 2009 [12:02]
Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi announced on Wednesday that Iran will unveil a new generation of the “national satellite” called Tolou (dawn) in early February.
24 December 2009 [11:41]
Turkey and Syria issued a joint declaration on Wednesday after a meeting of a High Level Cooperation Council between the two countries.
24 December 2009 [11:33]
Armenia-China foreign ministries’ political consultations were held in the Armenian Foreign Ministry.
24 December 2009 [10:48]
The Turkish Health Ministry decided this week to stop releasing the number of deaths due to swine flu, a decision some experts criticized, saying it could erode transparency and confidence.
24 December 2009 [10:32]
Armenia is facing increased pressures in Karabakh peace process, Armenian National Congress representative Levon Zurabyan said.
23 December 2009 [16:42]
Armenia has confirmed the third swine flu death, Aykakan Zhamanak newspaper reported.
23 December 2009 [14:58]
Armenian soldier Gor Agabekyan, who served at a military unit in the occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, has shot dead his two fellow soldiers.
23 December 2009 [13:11]
The past year has been a hard one with numerous problems for the Armenian economy, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan stated at his meeting with Armenian businessmen.
23 December 2009 [12:26]
23 December 2009 [10:16]
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) co-rapporteurs have issued a statement on Armenia.
23 December 2009 [10:06]
Armenia and Turkey have wide energy contacts, so both can carry out various joint energy projects, Armenia's Energy and Natural Resources Minister Armen Movsisyan said at a press conference.
23 December 2009 [10:03]
22 December 2009 [17:34]
No governmental talks on resumption of air transport between Russia and Georgia are being held, Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Nino Kalandadze said.
22 December 2009 [17:12]
Swine flu has killed 18-year-old pregnant girl in the Kutaisi Mother and Child Center on Dec.22, Georgia's National Center for Disease Control said.
22 December 2009 [16:49]
22 December 2009 [16:32]
A gas explosion at the Maltepe Technical and Vocational High School for girls in Istanbul injured four people Tuesday.
22 December 2009 [10:12]
"Armenia-Turkey rapprochement protocols contain provisions, disadvantageous to Armenia."
22 December 2009 [09:45]
Human rights in Armenian and the PACE farce
UNESCO celebrates 950th anniversary of Diwan Lughat al-Turk
Azerbaijan's FM meets with Secretary of Holy See for Relations with States and International Organizations
Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry congratulates Kingdom of Bahrain on national holiday
Azerbaijan's Ministry of Emergency Situations marks 19th Anniversary
Decottigny is more of a salad than a diplomat
First VP Mehriban Aliyeva shares footage of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan singing Sari Gelin