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BELGRADE - Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic will take part in the solidarity march in Paris on Sunday which was organised as response to the terrorist attack on the editorial of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.

The participation in the Solidarity March to be held on Sunday in Paris is 'a strong signal of Romania's desire for involvement in the fight against terrorism and extremism of any kind,' on Saturday said president Klaus Iohannis, in a release to AGERPRES.

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BELGRADE - As a religion, Islam does not support violent acts, Mufti Muhamed Jusufspahic said commenting on the recent terrorist attack in France.

In a statement for the Belgrade-base Television B92, Jusufspahic said that the murder of 12 individuals in Paris should be regarded in the wider context because every murder has a new violent act as its consequence.

NOVI SAD - Citizens of Novi Sad honoured the victims of the terrorist attack on the editorial of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo by lighting candles at the Freedom Square on Friday night.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu responded to questions at the airport over French terror suspect Hayat Boumeddiene before leaving Turkey to attend the support rally in Paris for France on Jan. 11.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu will join other European leaders in an extraordinary show of support for France at a mass rally in Paris scheduled for Jan. 11.

There were calls for Davuto?lu to join the demonstration as a wave of global support continued following the bloody end to the Charlie Hebdo attacks? sieges. 

Homemade explosive devices have been found in two shopping malls in Istanbul, days after a deadly suicide bombing in the city center and and the attacks in Paris.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an called his French counterpart François Hollande late Jan. 9 to express Turkey's solidarity with France.

The Turkish president also offered his condolences to the victims' families. Both presidents agreed to collaborate on anti-terrorism efforts.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has claimed that terror attacks are aimed at creating chaos, followed by hate, and civil war.

Asked to comment on the terror attacks in Paris, which left 17 people dead, Borisov urged Bulgarian people to not succumb to the attitudes which this wave of violence was inciting.

It is clear by now that the terrorists who raided Charlie Hebdo on Jan. 7, killing 12 people and later turning Paris and its surroundings into a battlefield - taking lives and hostages - have links to radical Islamist organizations in the Middle East.