Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian President Vladimir Putin had talks in İstanbul on Friday, mainly focusing on the blossoming trade relationship during a one-day trip of the Russian president.

• Date: 03.12.2012  |  Published on EGF: 03.12.2012  |  External Relations  |  from todayszaman.com

North Korea is to carry out its second rocket launch of 2012 as its youthful leader Kim Jong-un flexes his muscles a year after his father's death, in a move that will likely heighten diplomatic tensions and draw criticism from Washington.

• Date: 01.12.2012  |  Published on EGF: 01.12.2012  |  External Relations  |  from thestar.com.my

Russia is not delivering "destabilizing weapons" to Syria, even though there was no UN embargo in place, said the head of Russia's Presidential Administration on Friday.

• Date: 01.12.2012  |  Published on EGF: 01.12.2012  |  External Relations  |  from mod.gov.cn

Access to the website of RFE/RL's Tajik service, Radio Ozodi, has been blocked in Tajikistan since last night, only days after authorities blocked Facebook inside the country.

• Date: 01.12.2012  |  Published on EGF: 01.12.2012  |  Security  |  from rferl.org

Iran has demanded the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) immediately close its investigation into allegations Tehran has a military dimension to its nuclear program.

• Date: 30.11.2012  |  Published on EGF: 30.11.2012  |  External Relations  |  from rferl.org

Turkey will press Russian President Vladimir Putin next week to cooperate in engineering as rapid an end as possible to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's rule and try to assuage his fears Moscow could lose out after Assad's departure.

• Date: 30.11.2012  |  Published on EGF: 30.11.2012  |  External Relations  |  from reuters.com

Russian-Iranian consultations on the Caspian Sea problems were held at the Russian Foreign Ministry on Nov. 29, the ministry's website reported. The Russian delegation was headed by the Special Representative of the Russian Federation's President, Ambassador-at-Large Igor Bratchikov, while the Iranian delegation was led by Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammad Mehdi Akhundzadeh.

• Date: 30.11.2012  |  Published on EGF: 30.11.2012  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az

The U.N. nuclear agency made no progress in a year-long push to find out if Iran worked on developing an atomic bomb, its chief said on Thursday, calling for urgent efforts to end Tehran’s standoff with the West.

• Date: 29.11.2012  |  Published on EGF: 29.11.2012  |  Energy  |  from forward.com