Tunisia

Police used tear gas to intervene in a group of main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) youth branch members on Nov. 23, while they were trying to make a press statement at Istanbul’s flashpoint Gezi Park.

Tunisians are voting Sunday in their first presidential election since the 2011 revolution that sparked the "Arab Spring."

More than 5.2 million eligible voters may cast ballots at some 4500 polling stations which will be open from 8 am to 6 pm local time, according to reports of Al Jazeera.

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said she was weighing bringing war crimes charges against militants of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), in an interview published Nov. 20.

Fatou Bensouda told the German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung that such steps would be possible for extremists whose home countries have signed on to the ICC's treaty.        

In line with the government’s eagerness for making the Turkish opening of Africa a legendary success story, the African continent received the biggest share of overall assistance provided for different regions by Turkey’s aid agency in 2013.

Bulgaria's caretaker minister of foreign affairs Daniel Mitov, retains his job in the new regular government.

He is one of the youngest ministers.

Tunisia's main secular party Nidaa Tounes won 85 seats in the new 217-member parliament in Sunday's election, while the Islamist party Ennahda secured 69 seats, according to results released by electoral authorities on Oct. 30.
   

BELGRADE - Ivica Dacic, Serbia's first deputy prime minister and foreign minister, held a meeting on Wednesday with 15 Ambassadors of the group of African Arab countries in an effort to further strengthen Serbia's position in Arab countries, and improve bilateral relations with African partners.

Tunisia, the North African country that initiated the “Arab Spring” in 2011, continues to be the only democratic success story in the Arab world. Last weekend, Tunisians freely and peacefully voted to change their government for the second time since the overthrow of their longtime dictator, Ben Ali, more than three years ago.

The results of the elections in Tunisia on Sunday, Oct. 26 have significance for Turkey in particular, and for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in general. The reason is self-evident.

Tunisia's main secular opposition party is claiming a big victory in the country's historic election over the once dominant Islamists.