The three gunmen attacked Savarbek Matiyev at his house at 10:50 pm local time (18:50 GMT), the source said. The police officer died at the scene.

The situation in the South eastern, mainly Kurdish populated areas of Turkey has deteriorated in recent weeks, particularly after a number of Kurdish MPs were barred by the courts from taking their seats in the new Parliament.

The Russian Newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta carried the folllowing article on the forthcoming Summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States to be held in Dushanbe on 2-3 September

From Queen Marie Antoinette, to Hosni Mubarak, from David Cameron to the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, the words of leaders can have unpredicable consequences.

The face of the cities of Baku, Tbilisi and Yerevan and other major cities in the region has changed over the last two decades.

This year's session of the UN General Assembly starts on 13 September

Ambassador Roland Kobia said that the European union would not like to think that the Karabakh peace process has failed.

Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan met his military chiefs yesterday as tension rises with Kurdish rebels in the South east of the country and problems in neighboring Syria threaten to spill over. The Turkish military is thought to be on high alert and reservist officers have been called back for duty.

Jalili and Patrushev held their first meeting yesterday. They discussed the expansion of bilateral relations between Tehran and Moscow in various fields as well international and regional developments

The news was given by the Head of the Foreign Relations Department Novruz Mammedov