Azerbaijan

Trstenjak won gold after successfully beating her Austrian opponent Kathrin Unterwurzbacher. The 25-year-old's new title adds to her impressive medal collection, the most important being the gold she received last year at the World Judo Championships in Kazakhstan.

Recently, at the very beginning of April 2016, the armed conflict between Armenian and Azerbaijani militaries was shortly renewed over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh - an autonomous province within Azerbaijan but in fact under direct military control by Armenia.

Russia on April 22 denounced Turkey's position on the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno Karabakh region after a Russian-mediated cease-fire ended the worst clashes in decades in the breakaway enclave.

Azmont Investments, a Montenegrin-based subsidiary of the Azerbaijan energy company SOCAR, will hold a groundbreaking ceremony on Friday for the start of work on a five-star hotel in the Bay of Kotor, part of the One&Only resort chain.

Turkish hoteliers have sped up promotional activities in new markets in a bid to recover their expected losses in key markets, mainly European and Russian markets. 

The Hotel Association of Turkey (TÜROB) said the association recently attended tourism fairs to diversify their markets in places like Latin America, South Africa and Azerbaijan, in a written statement on April 18. 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an is set to pay visits to Baku and Zagreb, first attending a global forum meeting of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) in the capital of neighboring Azerbaijan.

While in Croatia, Erdo?an will be accompanied by a large business delegation and attend a meeting of the Turkey-Croatia Business Forum. 

Major oil producers gathered in Qatar yesteray for crucial talks on capping production to boost prices, despite Iran's refusal to take part.

Top energy officials from some 15 countries including Saudi Arabia and Russia were at the Doha talks, amid reports a draft agreement was in the works to freeze output at January levels until at least October.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is to establish a working group in an effort to settle the long-running conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu said April 12.

The OIC will be more decisive on the occupied Karabakh topic, Çavu?o?lu told journalists after a meeting of OIC foreign ministers in Istanbul.        

Armenia and Azerbaijan on April 9 traded accusations over the shelling of each other's territory in violation of a days-old cease-fire aimed at halting a flareup of violence over the disputed Nagorno Karabakh region.

The two former-Soviet neighbors exchanged fire overnight but there were no reports of casualties.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has suggested that "a Turkish factor" might also be involved in the recent renewal of clashes in Nagorno-Karabakh, a region controlled by ethnic Armenian separatists and surrounded by Azerbaijan.

In an interview with Rossiya 24 TV station on Saturday, quoted by RIA Novosti, Medvedev assumed that violence could possibly be fuelled from "abroad".