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U.S. President Donald Trump is "open to a potential meeting in the future" with his Turkish counterpart, the White House said Dec. 24.

Minister Berat Albayrak

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attended a literary award ceremony on Dec. 21 in Istanbul in the memory of Turkish poet and philosopher Necip Fazıl Kısakürek.

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz on Friday thanked Romanian President Klaus Iohannis for taking care of democracy and rule of law.

"I want to thank him for, as President, he took care of democracy, of the rule of law," the Austrian Chancellor told the Romanian head of state, at the joint press conference they held at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace.

All of the U.S.'s roughly 2,000 troops in Syria will be leaving, President Donald Trump said Dec. 19 in a major policy departure for Washington.

At Monday's press conference, Nebojsa Stefanovic said he was prepared to do so because he felt "a part of the responsibility and the inability" to protect his colleagues at the police station in Guca.

The Philippines’ Catriona Gray was named Miss Universe 2018 in a competition concluding Dec. 15 in Bangkok, besting contestants from 93 other countries and delighting her home country. Click through for the story in photos...

Russian Patriarch Kirill has reportedly sent messages to world leaders including Pope Francis, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron, asking for their support in his feud with Kiev over the issue of the Ukrainian Church's independence from Moscow.

Finally, the restraints on the Sofia Graf Itentiev Street will be triangular prisms. The last selected model, however, is several times smaller than the one shown a week ago compared to shark fins.

Günçe Çetin (L) speaks to HDN's Sevil Erkuş in Ankara