Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev discussed the Syria crisis by phone, the Kremlin said on Saturday, after peace talks in Kazakhstan closed without any substantive negotiations.

• Date: 18.03.2017  |  Published on EGF: 18.03.2017  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com

Turkey may cancel a migrant readmission agreement with the European Union, and is also re-evaluating a $6 billion refugee deal with the bloc, foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in a televised interview late Wednesday.

• Date: 15.03.2017  |  Published on EGF: 15.03.2017  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com

Russia appears to have deployed special forces to an airbase in western Egypt near the border with Libya in recent days, U.S., Egyptian and diplomatic sources say, a move that would add to U.S. concerns about Moscow's deepening role in Libya.

• Date: 14.03.2017  |  Published on EGF: 14.03.2017  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday ordered his officials to seal an agreement which will, in effect, incorporate the armed forces of Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region into the Russian military's command structure.

• Date: 14.03.2017  |  Published on EGF: 14.03.2017  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com

Russian-led peace talks on Syria were derailed on Tuesday as rebels backed by Turkey boycotted a third round of meetings in Kazakhstan and the Kremlin indicated there were international divisions over the process.

• Date: 14.03.2017  |  Published on EGF: 14.03.2017  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com

Germany and the Netherlands revised travel advice for Turkey this week amid a deepening row over European cancellations of events by Turkish officials aimed at rallying support for a vote to expand the powers of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.

• Date: 13.03.2017  |  Published on EGF: 13.03.2017  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com

President Tayyip Erdogan sought to build cooperation with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Friday over military operations in Syria, as Turkey attempts to create a border "safe zone" free of Islamic State and the Kurdish YPG militia.

• Date: 11.03.2017  |  Published on EGF: 11.03.2017  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com

The Syrian government has called on the United Nations to force Turkey to pull "its invasion forces" out of Syria, state media said on Friday.

• Date: 10.03.2017  |  Published on EGF: 10.03.2017  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com