Having hosted countless events throughout the year, Eskisehir, the Cultural Capital of the Turkic World 2013, has given over this prestigious title to Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan in an impressive ceremony held on March 21st, 2014 . The celebrations...
Kazakhstan’s singer Zhanar Dugalova wins Turkvision Song Contest in Kazan.Final of the 2nd international song contest was attended by 15 participants with the highest number of votes in the semifinals.Dugalova performed third in the final. Her song Ozіn Korem garnered...
Azerbaijan, the third-largest oil producer in the former Soviet Union, will look past falling crude prices and increase military spending by more than a quarter next year as tensions escalate with neighboring Armenia. Defense outlays will grow 27 percent to 3.8 billion...
Azerbaijan’s defence ministry says its forces have shot down an Armenian military helicopter violating its airspace. Three crew members were killed in the incident, according to local reports. The helicopter was flying in the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh, an...
An informal vote on independence for Catalonia has shown more than 80% in favour, officials say. The non-binding vote went ahead after Spain’s constitutional court ruled out holding a formal referendum in the autonomous north-eastern region. More than two million...
Azerbaijan and Iran will sign 10 documents during the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s visit to Baku, the Co-chair of the Azerbaijani-Iranian State Commission on Economic, Trade and Humanitarian Cooperation Mahmoud Vaezi said Nov. 5. He made the remarks at a...
Araz News: Selahaddin Faruqi leader of the Balochi armed organization Jaish-Al-Adl gave an exclusive reportage to the Al-Arabiya news agency Persian service. In the reportage he gave explanations about the group’s goals. In the reportage Mr. Faruqi insists that they...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that Turkey had continuously reiterated that it is not recognizing Russia’s steps against Crimean Tatars. Russian authorities have recently ordered Crimean Tatars to leave their assembly building in a move that the leader of...
The White House confirmed on Saturday that US Vice President Joe Biden spoke with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to apologize over his recent ISIS comments made at Harvard University. “The vice president apologized for any implication that Turkey or...
Turkish Parliament has voted in favor of the deployment of cross-border troops to Iraq and Syria to fight ISIS and other terrorist organizations The Turkish Parliament on late Thursday has voted in favor of the deployment of cross-border troops to...
A determined Catalonia has formally called an independence referendum and has set the date for 9 November, putting it on a collision course with the Spanish government. Catalan President Artur Mas signed the decree in a ceremony at the regional...
A court in China has found a prominent Uighur scholar guilty of separatism and jailed him for life, his lawyer says. Ilham Tohti had spoken out on China’s policies towards the Muslim Uighur minority in the restive Xinjiang region, but...
The president of Spain’s Catalonia region said yesterday (21 September) he would formally call “in the next days” for a vote on independence from Spain which has been scheduled for 9 November. The Catalan parliament passed a law on Friday...
Günther Dauwen from the European Free Alliance is just one member of a regionalist party who will be in Edinburgh supporting the Yes campaign. Dauwen is Flemish and hoping that victory in Scotland will set a precedent for separatists in other European...
Turkey to stand ‘shoulder to shoulder’ with Azerbaijan Turkish PM Davutoglu visited Baku against backdrop of renewed clashes with Armenia over disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. Turkey and Azerbaijan will work “shoulder to shoulder” to settle regional conflicts, Turkey’s prime...
