Turkish President Abdullah Gül has invited Jan. 13 the leaders of opposition parties in Parliament for separate meetings at the presidential palace in Ankara, amid an ongoing political crisis fueled by a government bill increasing its control of the judiciary. 

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived here on Monday for talks with Iraqi top officials over range of regional issues, including the crisis in Syria and crisis in Iraq’s Anbar province, an official television reported.

Azerbaijani Defense Minister, Colonel-General Zakir Hasanov paid an official visit to France. The defense ministries of the two countries are expected to sign an

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin will pay today a working visit to Macedonia, where he is to meet with his Macedonian counterpart Nikola Poposki.

United States of America intend to launch the military training of 5,000 to 8,000 Libyan soldiers in the middle of 2014 so that Libya’s stability could be maintained. The news was announced by General David M. Rodriguez, who is the Combatant Commander

The EULEX mission in Kosovo will be granted a new mandate in June and will continue investigating war crimes and organized crime.

Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic met with European Parliament (EP) Rapporteur for Serbia Jelko Kacin in Belgrade on Friday.

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on January 10 that Bashar al-Assad is the source of evil in Syria. Turkey’s position on Syria remains unchanged, according to the minister.

The top commander of NATO in Afghanistan, Gen. Joseph F. Dunford on Thursday declared Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) the best way to bring peace, stability and progress to Afghanistan and vanquish the war-torn country’s

New Turkish EU Minister and Chief Negotiator Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has called on EU not to make “unilateral and impatient statements via media” and urged calm over the events following a major graft probe.