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Ankara is planning to engage in more intense diplomacy with the U.S. under Donald Trump's incoming administration, amid news that a Turkish presidential delegation is set to visit Washington D.C. in February to contact the new administration.

Whether by coincidence or not, a lot of things will start to change both in Turkey and in the world in the next two days.

In Turkey we will have the result of the second round of voting in parliament over the constitutional shift to an executive presidential system.

Then on Jan. 20 the U.S. and the world will see the beginning of Donald Trump's term as president.

Turkey and its neighbors are getting ready for the new host of the White House. But the signs are confusing. Donald Trump's policies sound like they will be remarkably different from his predecessor's.

But when you scratch the surface and dig deeper, they sound like more of the same - at least in their foreign relations' agendas.

The US Treasury has sanctioned President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, for obstructing the peace agreement that ended the war of 1992 to 1995 by defying the orders of Bosnia's Constitutional Court.

BELGRADE - The outgoing U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has accused Russia of engaging in aggressive and destabilizing actions that she says are threatening the rules-based international order.

Samantha Power made the remarks on January 17 at the Washington-based Atlantic Council in her last major speech as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Some new photos from the Loch Ness lake in Scotland stir up the rumors about the legendary Loch Ness monster (aka “Nessie”).

The new photo was taken by Natasha Heidlage from Texas, USA and a shadow can be seen under the water. Also, in a photo taken by another person one can see a strange wave on the surface of the water.

Vladimir Putin has dismissed the dossier published last week about alleged links between Moscow and Donald Trump, describing the people who ordered it as “worse than prostitutes”.

Greek-American filmmaker Alexandra Anthony's documentary "Lost in the Bewilderness" is having a one-week run at the Alkyonis New Star Cinema in central Athens, starting on Thursday, January 19.

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Çavuşoğlu will attend U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration ceremony on Jan. 20.

At a meeting with the High Education Board yesterday, Çavuşoğlu announced he will depart to the U.S. late yesterday to attend the inauguration. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has described as fraud claims that Moscow has at its disposal compromising materials about US President-elect Donald Trump.