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Turkish Defense Minister Yaşar Güler has emphasized the importance of Sweden fulfilling its commitments in order to achieve NATO membership, citing Finland's expeditious accession process as an example that Sweden could follow a similar path.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has reshuffled a number of ambassadors, including Moscow and Kiev, the two warring neighboring states. The spokesman of the Foreign Ministry, Tanju Bilgiç, will serve in Moscow while Mustafa Levent Bilgen will be deployed to Kiev, the Turkish media reported on June 16.

The fourth meeting on a joint permanent mechanism between Türkiye, Finland, Sweden and NATO has been held in the Turkish capital Ankara on June 14.

Akif Çağatay Kılıç, the chief adviser to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, chaired the one-day meeting at the presidential complex.

However, ahead of the NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, which begins on July 11, where confronting Russia will be high on the agenda, Sir Richard Shirreff, the former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, said NATO was not ready for war with Moscow.

Manchester City is the huge favorite heading into June 10's Champions League final against Inter Milan in Istanbul as Pep Guardiola's side aims to finally get its hands on the greatest prize in European club football, and complete a historic treble.

City has been building towards this moment ever since the transformative 2008 takeover of the club by the Abu Dhabi United Group.

It's not as if Madrid was short on world-ranking galleries with the likes of the Prado Museum, the Thyssen-Bornemisza and the Reina Sofía, among others.

MADRID - Serbian tennis player Dusan Lajovic is out of the Madrid Masters after a 6-7, 6-3, 6-3 defeat to Germany's Jan-Lennard Struff in the third round of the tournament on Monday.

Struff won after two hours and 13 minutes of play.

The prize money in Madrid is 7,705,780 euros.

The third game of this series is scheduled for Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. in Stark Arena.

MADRID - Partizan Belgrade defeated Real Madrid 95-80 away from home in the second game of the two teams' EuroLeague Basketball quarter-final series on Thursday evening.

Partizan basketball players defeated Real Madrid in the second game of the Euroleague quarterfinal series with a score of 95:80 in a game that ended 100 seconds before the end.
We witnessed an incredible fight between the players at 1:40 before the end, and since all the players were on the floor, the referees decided to end the match at that moment.