Turkish Foreign Ministry

A civil helicopter carrying six passengers, including four Turks, and an Italian pilot, went missing on June 10 around half an hour after it departed from the northern Italian town of Lucca, putting the Italian rescue teams on alert.

Turkish Eczacıbaşı Holding admitted that the four Turkish citizens were their employees who went to Italy to join an expo in the province of Treviso.

Turkish Foreign Ministry summoned the Italian ambassador in Ankara, Giorgio Marrapodi, on June 6 over PKK demonstrations in Rome, diplomatic sources said.

The citizens of Norway, the non-EU Nordic country, will be able to travel to Turkey by only showing their national ID, with no need for passports, once the bureaucratic procedures are completed, the daily Milliyet has reported.

Turkey and the European Union will hold a political dialogue in Ankara on May 31, the Turkish Foreign Ministry has said in a written statement.

Some 12 Turkish fishermen, who sailed from Istanbul to Crimea to fish turbots, have been detained by the Russian Navy, the daily Milliyet has reported.

"Fishermen in two boats went to Crimea and caught around 1,500 turbots in a week and were nabbed on May 18 during their voyage back to Turkey," the daily wrote on May 27.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, an important mediator seeking an end to Russia's war against Ukraine, will visit Turkey on April 25 before heading to Moscow and later Kiev.

"The secretary-general will visit Ankara, where, on April 25, he will be received by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan," the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement on April 24.

Turkish Foreign Ministry on April 6 called for an independent investigation into the murder of civilians in the town of Bucha and other cities in Ukraine.

Ankara extended condolences to victims of an explosion that occurred early on April 3 in a nightclub in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku.

"We share their pain with our Azerbaijani brothers," a statement released by the Turkish Foreign Ministry said.

An explosion struck a nightclub in Baku and set off a fire, killing one person and injuring 31, officials said.

Ankara extended condolences to victims of an explosion that occurred early on April 3 in a nightclub in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku.

"We share their pain with our Azerbaijani brothers," a statement released by the Turkish Foreign Ministry said.

An explosion struck a nightclub in Baku and set off a fire, killing one person and injuring 31, officials said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has rejected Moscow's offer to start peace negotiations in Belarus, instead, pointing at Istanbul, Warsaw, Bratislava, Budapest or Baku for talks.

"Warsaw, Bratislava, Budapest, Istanbul, Baku. We proposed all of them," Zelensky said on Feb. 27 in an address posted online.