Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin
Baku/29.09.21/Turan: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan left on Wednesday for a meeting with the President of Russia in Sochi. During the visit, the President is accompanied by head of the national intelligence service (MIT) Hakan Fidan; head of the communications department of the Presidential Administration Fahrettin Altun; press secretary of the President Ibrahim Kalyn.
A meeting of the two Presidents will discuss bilateral relations, regional processes, including situations in Syria, Libya and Afghanistan, the Anadolu agency reported.
As viewed by observers, the Karabakh issue will also be touched upon in the talks given its importance for both sides.-02B-
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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OPHRD), a joint program of the World Organization against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has called for the urgent release of activist Rufat Safarov from prison in Azerbaijan. It has launched a campaign in support of the Azerbaijani human rights defender. https://www.omct.org/en/resources/urgent-interventions/arbitrary-detention-and-judicial-harassment-against-rufat-safarov
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This year, the laureate of the annual Nargiz Prize, awarded for efforts in the fight for democracy, was Akif Gurbanov, chairman of the board of the Resplatforma (Platform of the III Republic) movement, who is under arrest.
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The U.S. will prohibit the issuing of visas for nearly a dozen more individuals responsible for undermining democracy in Georgia, bringing the total number to over 100, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
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The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has expressed condolences to the President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, following the tragic incident in the city of Magdeburg. "We are deeply shocked by the news of the deaths and injuries resulting from the tragic incident that took place at the Christmas market in Magdeburg," the message reads.
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