Israel says it has held its first high-level meeting with Turkey, since Ankara was angered by the Gaza flotilla raid.

• Date: 01.07.2010  |  Published on EGF: 01.07.2010  |  External Relations  |  from bbc.co.uk

Turkey has closed its airspace to Israeli military aircraft, citing a raid on Gaza-bound aid ships last month by Israeli commandos which left eight Turks and a US-Turkish citizen dead.

• Date: 29.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 29.06.2010  |  External Relations  |  from Deutsche Welle

Furious over Internet insults of the country's beloved founder, Turkey has gone on the offensive against Google, tightening a ban on YouTube and cutting public access to a host of Google-owned sites.

• Date: 26.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 26.06.2010  |  Security  |  from wn.com

One of the few certainties of the 11-month-old Bulgarian Government of Prime Minister Boiko Borissov is that any initial announcement on an issue of note would be swiftly followed by an official regress.

• Date: 25.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 25.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from sofiaecho.com

Bulgaria’s Economy and Energy Minister, Traicho Traikov, defended Monday the outsourcing of services by the three foreign – owned electric power utilities in Bulgaria.

• Date: 24.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 24.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from novinite.com

RIA Novosti reported that Russia gas monopoly Gazprom is likely to replace Bulgaria with Romania in the South Stream pipeline network since Bulgaria halted the other two joint energy projects with Russia.

• Date: 22.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 22.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from steelguru.com

Russia aims to build a £10bn constellation of five ski resorts in its mainly Muslim north Caucasus region, where an Islamist insurgency claimed the lives of almost 1,000 people last year.

• Date: 22.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 22.06.2010  |  Markets  |  from guardian.co.uk

Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan has vowed to crush Kurdish rebels after attacks killed 11 Turkish soldiers. Clashes between the two sides have escalated sharply.

• Date: 21.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 21.06.2010  |  External Relations  |  from Deutsche Welle