Foreign Ministry

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva arrived at Franjo Tudjman Airport in Zagreb last night. She is on an official visit to the Republic of Croatia at the invitation of Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Grlić-Radman, the Foreign Ministry said.
 

Turkey's Foreign Ministry on Thursday called on Greek authorities to bring to justice the suspects who barged into the outside grounds of the Turkish Consulate in the northern port city of Thessaloniki on Thursday morning to protest against the country's incursion into Syria.

In the days remaining until the end of the week, tensions and opposition between protesters and law enforcement officials in the Spanish Autonomous Region of Catalonia and its capital Barcelona are expected to increase. A general strike was announced on October 18, the Foreign Ministry announced.

The Ambassador of the Republic of Bulgaria to India Eleonora Dimitrova has signed on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria a contract with the Indian outsourcing company VFS Global, the Foreign Ministry announced.

Turkey's Foreign Ministry said on Monday that it rejected and condemned decisions taken by the European Union to suspend arms exports to Turkey following Ankara's northeast Syria incursion and drilling activities in the eastern Mediterranean.

Greece has condemned Turkey's unilateral offensive in northeastern Syria, calling it a "direct violation of international law," while warning that the operation could have serious humanitarian consequences.
In a statement on Thursday, the Foreign Ministry urged Turkey to halt its military operation, echoing the European Union position expressed on Wednesday.

Greece has condemned an anti-Semitic attack in which two people were killed in the eastern German city of Halle.
"Deeply shocked by the atrocious attack in the Halle synagogue, Germany. There is no place for antisemitism in Europe," the Foreign Ministry said in a tweet on Thursday.

Moldova's breakaway region of Transnistria has asked its ally and sponsor Russia to allow it to issue Transnistrian "passports" at the diplomatic office it opened in January in Moscow.

The region, which broke away from Moldova in 1992, backed by Russia, has not been recognised by any member states of the United Nations - Russia included.

Turkey has summoned a U.S. diplomat to its Foreign Ministry after the U.S. embassy's Twitter account "liked" a tweet speculating the health of Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli, who has recently fallen ill.

Turkey is "deeply saddened" by the loss of lives and injuries in Iraq as anti-government protests continue, the country's Foreign Ministry said late on Oct. 4.