Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul urged calm on Monday after days of violent clashes between police and anti-government protesters and promised them their message had been “received”.

Montenegro is ready to expand cooperation with Azerbaijan in all fields and in particular culture and education, Minister of Culture of Montenegro Branislav Micunovic said at a session of the Second World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue which took place on Thursday in Baku.

Greece blocks Macedonia’s NATO membership over the name issue but we will be always next to it and will not allow change of the name. This is what Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said.