The National Electoral Council of Venezuela has set January 26, Wednesday, as a date for collecting signatures in support of the premature termination of the powers of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro

Iranian gas exports to Turkey were renewed on Friday after being cut due to a leak at a Turkish gas station, the Iranian news agency SHANA reported

Turkey can play a positive part in resolving the Ukrainian crisis, provided both Moscow and Kiev approve the mediation, but a big breakthrough is unlikely, the leader of the centrist Innovation Party of Turkey, Ozturk Yilmaz, told Sputnik on Friday

The Greek-Turkish Joint Economic Commission will hold its first meeting on Monday after 11-year inactivity and sign a protocol after the session, the Greek Foreign Ministry said

The US military in 2017 bombed the Tabqa Dam in northern Syria causing it to stop functioning entirely despite the dam being placed on a no-strike list of protected civilian sites, the New York Times reported on Thursday, citing anonymous former officials

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Thursday condemned Cypriot authorities for allowing a Syrian Kurdish party to open a representative office in the Nicosia, the capital of southern Cyprus, accusing Greece of harboring terrorism