Turkey’s government apologised on Tuesday to protesters hurt in clashes with police during days of demonstrations and called for an immediate end to the protests. Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc moved to calm

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said that the US-Russia led Syria peace conference in Geneva, which is planned for June but likely to be pushed back to July, is bound to fail if the Syrian opposition is excluded from the talks.

Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili received NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia James Appathurai on Monday. The meeting was held at the Prime Minister’s residence.