Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan dismissed plans to build a shopping mall at the controversial Gezi Park while calling for an end to more than 10-day protests during his speech at the Ministry of European Affairs Istanbul conference on June 7.

NATO hopes that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement will soon be settled and intends to strengthen its relations with the countries of the South Caucasus, NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs James Appathurai said during a teleconference Pyatigorsk – Brussels.

Excessive police force against demonstrators “has no place” in a democracy, European Union Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule told Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday, urging a probe into a week of violent unrest in Turkey, a longtime EU hopeful.