TURKEY The ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) plans to make major progress in the completion of the main aspects of the Kurdish initiative before the European Union — which Turkey aspires to join — releases a progress report on Turkey’s membership efforts in autumn. The ruling party wants …

GEORGIA “Even though Georgia officially withdraws CIS membership tomorrow, under 1969 Vienna Convention, it remains party to about 75 international agreements signed within CIS format,” Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister David Djalagania told today a traditional briefing. “In August last year, a CIS sovereign country declared war to another sovereign state …

SOFIA, Bulgaria More than 60% of the documents on Bulgarian extraction shown during the procedure on getting Bulgarian citizenship are unauthentic. The work of the Bulgarian Citizenship Directorate with the Ministry of Justice and the Interdepartmental Council for Bulgarian Citizenship has been highly embarrassed due to the fact that more …