Eurasia

Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioğlu and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister and State Secretary Grigory Karasin met in Ankara on Wednesday for consultations on Eurasia and possible cooperation in the region.

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has met a delegation headed by the leader of the opposition Syrian National Coalition, Ahmed al-Jarba, in Moscow. The two sides discussed an outline for a potential transitional government in Syria. Lavrov said all parties should get more involved in exchanging dialogue with each other.

Washington’s top diplomat on Tuesday slammed the Syrian government’s use of deadly barrel bombs in the northern city of Aleppo. “Each and every barrel bomb filled with metal shrapnel and fuel launched against innocent Syrians underscores the barbarity of a regime that has

An Egyptian court on Wednesday adjourned the trial of former information minister Salah Abdel-Maqsoud, who served under ousted president Mohamed Morsi, to April 8.

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday invited the Indian government to a peaceful dialogue to resolve the Kashmir issue, according to an official press release here on Wednesday. Nawaz, while addressing a joint session of the Azad Kashmir Legislative Assembly and Kashmir Council on Kashmir Solidarity Day, said that …

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić received on Tuesday the letter of credence of newly-appointed Macedonian Ambassador in Belgrade Vera Jovanovska Tipko. The diplomat said during the ceremony that “the two countries and nations share traditionally friendly ties.”

Romanian President Traian Basescu has arrived in Ankara for a two-day official visit Wednesday. Basescu was welcomed at the Esenboga Airport by European Union Minister and Chief Negotiator Mevlut Cavusoglu, Deputy

Turkey’s prime minister called for reformation of the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday, saying that permanent members were obstructing humanitarian aid from getting to Syria. 

The European Union’s foreign policy chief is meeting Ukraine’s president as the country’s political crisis bogs down in a stalemate and the opposition accuses the leadership of conducting a war of attrition.

Bulgaria’s Partnership Agreement with the European Commission for the 2014-2020 period is unlikely to be signed by April, according to former EU Funds Minister Tomislav Donchev. In a Wednesday interview for Bulgaria on Air TV, Donchev, MP from center-right party GERB (Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria), claimed that there were three main problems