Minsk Group co-Chair Ministers mark a year of setbacks with Basel Statement
commonspace.eu Senior Ministers from the three countries that Chair the OSCE Minsk Process – France, Russia and the United States – have issued a statement [more >>>]
Month: December 2014
Azerbaijan: 200 Nakhichevan Muslims arrested, 50 still detained, 50 mosques closed
By FELIX CORLEY Forum 18 News Service About 200 Muslims were arrested by the authorities in Azerbaijan’s exclave of Nakhichevan [Naxçivan] in mid-November, several sources [more >>>]
European Forum of Democracy and Solidarity Newsflash
NEWSFLASH #23 (20 November – 4 December 2014) European Forum of Democracy and Solidarity Turkey ►Turkey falls behind in global corruption index On 3 December [more >>>]
Knaus, “EU Should Consider Sanctions Against Azerbaijan”
RFE/RL (Azerbaijani service) Gerald Knaus is the founder of European Stability Initiative (ESI), a Berlin-based think tank working on South-eastern Europe, Turkey and the Caucasus. [more >>>]
Europe, Central Asia and the state of corruption in 2014: the gold standard?
Transparency International Perhaps it should come as no surprise that out of 175 countries in the 2014 Corruption Perceptions Index, the once great economic hope [more >>>]
Winners and Losers in the Black Sea Gas Game
By THOMAS DE WAAL Carnegie Moscow Center Calling time on the South Stream pipeline project in Ankara this week, Vladimir Putin tried to spin it [more >>>]
ECHR: Turkey Discriminated Cemevis
By EROL ÖNDEROĞLU BIA News Desk The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs’s rejection of paying electricity bills of [more >>>]
U.S. Criticizes Azerbaijan Crackdown
RFE/RL At yesterday’s daily briefing, U.S. State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki issued this statement in response to a question raised about the detention of RFE/RL [more >>>]
Gas, pipelines and the future of Eurasia dominate Putin-Erdogan talks
source: commonspace.eu with agencies commonspace.eu Turkey rolled out the red carpet to greet visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin during his one day visit to Ankara [more >>>]