APA-ECONOMICS. Until 2025, SOCAR intends to invest $15 bln in Turkey, head of SOCAR Investments Department Vagif Aliyev said, APA reports citing Turkish media.

• November 30, 2011

Britain began pulling its diplomats out of Iran on Wednesday, a day after protesters stormed and ransacked its embassy and residential compound in the capital Tehran.

• November 30, 2011

Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Massimov and Managing Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) for South-Eastern Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus and Central Asia Olivier Descamps discussed future cooperation, the Prime Minister's press service reported.

• November 29, 2011

A senior U.S. official has dismissed Iran's threats against NATO missile defense installations in Turkey ahead of a visit by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden to the key U.S. ally and linchpin of NATO's southern flank.

• November 29, 2011

Over 100 Peace Corps volunteers have been pulled out of Kazakhstan, the BBC reported.

• November 28, 2011

Russia is sending a flotilla of warships to its naval base in Syria in a show of force which suggests Moscow is willing to defend its interests in the strife-torn country as international pressure mounts on President Bashar al-Assad's government.

• November 28, 2011

The decision by Iran's parliament to expel the British Ambassador to Tehran demonstrates what the Iranian government really thinks about diplomacy – that it is a complete waste of time.

• November 28, 2011

Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has once again returned to the idea of creating a common grain pool of three countries: Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Russia, the Ukrainian prime minister's spokesman, Vitaliy Lukyanenko, said in Astana on Thursday.

• November 24, 2011