The deceased soldier was named as twenty-year old Hayk Kalantaryan. Azerbaijan says it repulsed an Armenian "provocation" in Fizuli district killing one and wounding two others.

It is expected that the diplomats will later this week hold similar talks with the Armenian leadership in Yerevan, and will also visit Nagorno-Karabakh.

TAP would be the first non-Russian gas pipeline to supply Europe since Algeria's Medgaz link nearly a decade ago, helping to dilute Gazprom's one-third share of Europe's gas market.

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