24th
October
2007
Brown, Erdogan sign joint strategic partnership agreement
Britain Tuesday pledged its full support for Turkey in efforts to “root out” terrorism by Kurdish PKK rebels as Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Iraq that a mandate for a possible Turkish incursion into northern Iraq could be “exercised at any time.”
Erdogan, speaking after talks in London with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, stressed that any Turkish military action would be “targeted only” at rebels of the Kurdish separatist group PKK. Read the rest of this entry »
Construction of a Centre for Orthodox Studies (Djemaran) will soon begin on top of the Armenian cemetery in Tbilisi. Armenian foreign language specialist Raffy Dikranian told a 
“Azeri soldier Samir Mammadov, who yielded himself prisoner to Armenia, should decide himself where to go: to Azerbaijan or to Europe,” said Avaz Azimov, a coordinator of the International Working Group for POWs and Hostages. 
“The United States condemnation of this tragedy is not at issue; the question is how best to facilitate reconciliation of all concerned parties with each other and with their painful and shared past,” U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said when addressing the Department of State with a report titled “The future of the U.S.-Turkey relations. 
Turkish intelligence provided Israel with information on the Syrian targets allegedly attacked by the Air Force last week without the Turkish government’s authorization, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jareeda reported Thursday. 
Recently established “No to racism and nationalism” Turkish public movement is launching a campaign tomorrow to demand annulment of article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code. The slogan of the action is “Article 301 must be cancelled. Racists must be punished.” The initiators are convinced that article 301, which criminalizes “insulting Turkishness”, is a serious obstacle to freedom of speech in Turkey. 
“The U.S. government is confident that the funds it assigned to Nagorno Karabakh are used for humanitarian purpose only,” said Jonathan Henick, the PR officer of the U.S. Embassy in Baku.
“The situation with the Nariman cemetery can have a negative influence on relations between our states,” said Vasily Istratov, the Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan.
The European Parliament is preparing a new report on the South Caucasus conflicts, said EP delegation head Marie Anne Isler Beguin who is currently in Azerbaijan. She said the report will be put on discussion in the near future. 
Building of a nuclear reactor in Azerbaijan will have positive impact on the country’s strategic image, said Adil Gharibov, director of the institute of radiation studies at the Azeri academy of sciences.