A main opposition group has decided to boycott the snap elections, but others are still to decide.

President Erdogan is learning the hard way the lesson that it is easy to get into a messy situation such as Syria, it is much more difficult to get out, writes Dennis Sammut

There are already speculations as to why the elections are being held in April and not in October as originally planned, but the most likely one is that the government wants to keep the period of uncertainty to the minimum.

132 passengers and six crewman on the Ukraine International Airlines flight were unhurt and emergency procedures were followed.

In 2017, more than half of Turkish exports, which totaled USD 157.1 billion, went to the 28 EU countries.

Incidents were reported at various points of the line of contact. No casulaties were reported, and Armenia has not confirmed the incident.

As international mediatiors return to the region this weekend, reports of incidents on the front line, and a return to maximalist rhetoric, continue to poison the atmosphere

The Turkish government had accused the group of "aiding armed terrorist organizations" through civil society actions in Turkey.

The Afrin events are being used to assert the notion that without Russian military guarantees, and a Russian military base deployed in Armenia, Yerevan will be under a constant threat from a potential Turkish offensive, says Benyamin Poghosyan in this op-ed

"There needs to be a Davos in Yerevan, Baku and Tbilisi, and in every town and village in the South Caucasus for ideas to be generated, visions to be formed, and for the momentum for modernisation to gather speed", says Dennis Sammut in this commentary