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BELGRADE - The away game in Tbilisi is currently the most important match for Serbia in the 2018 World Cup qualifiers, Serbia head coach Slavoljub Muslin said Monday as the men's football national team gathered ahead of Friday's clash with Georgia.

Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım will pay a one-day visit to Georgia on March 15, according to Turkish Prime Ministry sources. 

The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Yıldırım will travel to the coastal Georgian city of Batumi in the evening after addressing a public rally in the Turkish Black Sea province of Artvin. 

The Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway is expected to be ready by early summer, Transport, Maritime and Communications Minister Ahmet Arslan said March 6.   

"We want to start diesel locomotive by completing its construction within two months followed by testing for two months," Arslan added.        

The Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Kotzias will have a meeting with Rex Tillerson on March 13th in Washington. The meeting is a very good opportunity for Athens to express its concerns about the Turkish dangerously provocative stance of the last months and to promote its positions on a series of issues and especially the Cyprus negotiations.

European Union member states on Feb. 27 approved visa-free travel for Georgia, after agreeing safeguards to prevent any upsurge in arrivals from the former Soviet satellite.

Georgia, along with much larger Ukraine, has been urging the EU to grant visa-free travel so as to show its citizens that close ties with Europe can deliver concrete benefits.

Özgül Erdemli Mutlu is currently the director of corporate communications and environment policies at the Turkish Foundation for Combating Soil Erosion, for Reforestation and the Protection of Natural Habitats (TEMA). Founded in 1992, TEMA is one of Turkey's most prominent and influential environmental NGOs.

Turkey's highways authority has received bids from four international consortiums to build, operate, and maintain a new 10 billion-Turkish Lira ($2.61 billion) suspension bridge over the Dardanelles Strait, the authority said Jan. 26.

The Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP) project, set to carry Azeri gas to Europe, is now ahead of schedule, Turkey's ambassador to Azerbaijan said on Jan. 24. 

"The TANAP will be completed before the projected time and will start working," Erkan Özoral told state-run Anadolu Agency.

Turkey's logistics sector experienced slight contraction in 2016 after a series of clashes on its southern borders, a crisis with Russia, sharp fluctuations in foreign exchanges and tightening EU borders, according a leading association, as reported by Reuters on Jan. 3. 

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