Georgian Premier Giorgi Kvirikashvili on Tuesday visited Ankara, the first foreign leader to pay an official visit to Turkey following last Friday's failed coup.

The independent broadcaster had been due to show an interview with exiled Turkish cleric Fettulah Gulen who is accused of being behind the military coup in Turkey over the weekend.

President Ilham Aliev has signed documents starting the procedure for constitutional changes that will also see the term of the president extended from five to seven years

On Nagorno-Karabakh, as in Azerbaijan, so in Armenia, the government has failed to prepare society for an eventual peace based on compromise

The party left the Georgian Dream coalition in November 2014, and is now part of the opposition

An anti-government group stormed a police station on Sunday

An armed opposition group is demanding the release of government critic Jirair Sefilian

Almost 200 have been killed, and thousands more arrested or wounded in the failed attempt to topple Turkey's democratically elected government

There have been expressions of support for Turkey from the international community, including Azerbaijan and Georgia

Thousands of people took to the streets all over Turkey on Friday night to protest against an attempted coup by a section of the armed forces.