Politics - 1998 December 25 (Friday)

Four Azerbaijani citizens (a man and three women), injured in a plane crash near Aktau on 25 December, continue hospital treatment.

Sevinj Vagifgyzy, editor of ‘Abzas Media’, who is detained in Baku pre-trial detention centre-1, has reported physical pressures and discrimination against fellow journalists by the staff.

Earlier published on the Internet transcripts of the pilots' conversations differ from the materials of the “black boxes” of the AZAL plane that crashed in Aktau on 25 December. This was stated by Kazakhstan's Deputy Prime Minister Kanat Bozumbayev on 24 January.

The Trump administration this week kicked off fresh conversations with NATO ally Türkiye with focus on bilateral and regional issues, including the peace in the South Caucasus, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.