Foreign Ministry

Turkey has been hosting the world's biggest international summits in the last couple of days. Following the G-20 Summit in Antalya last weekend, now it's Istanbul's turn to host the Atlantic Council Summit, the globe's biggest energy summit.

Moscow is hoping that Bulgarian authorities will refrain from ill-grounded accusations against Russia, the country's Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday.

At a media briefing on current affairs, Maria Zakharova commented on Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev's recent interview with The Independent.

One Bulgarian citizen was reportedly killed in one of the multiple attacks, which claimed the lives of at least 128 people and left more than 180 people injured in Paris on Friday night.

The 37-year-old Sebastian, who has a dual citizenship - Bulgarian and French, was killed in the attack on the Le Petit Cambodge restaurant.

The Foreign Ministry has no information on any Bulgarian citizens injured or killed in the multiple attacks, which left at least 120 people dead and more than 200 others wounded in Paris on Friday night.

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov strongly condemned the attacks and expressed condolences to the families and relatives of the victims.

The forthcoming European Commission report on Montenegro is likely to positively assess progress in the country but will stress the need for a more efficient fight against corruption and the need for guarantees of media freedom, sources in Brussels said.

The Foreign Ministry advised on Friday Bulgarians to refrain from travelling to the Egyptian resorts located on the Sinai peninsula (Sharm el-Sheikh, Dahab, Nuweiba and others) until the investigation of the crashed Russian airplane has come out with a definitive conclusion on the likely causes of the incident.

Turkish security forces have refuted claims by Russian Air Force Commander Viktor Bondarev that a Russian aircraft had violated Turkey's airspace on Oct. 3 for a short while, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported. 

Turkey has sent a medical team to Romania to support the treatment of two Turks injured in nightclub fire, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tanju Bilgiç said on Nov. 5.

One of the Turkish nationals caught in the fire was severely injured and is under intensive care while the other has been released from hospital, he told reporters. 

Sevil Erku?sevil.erkus@hurriyet.com.trAnkara has welcomed a U.S. statement that the country is not currently providing arms to the People's Protection Units (YPG), the military force protecting the northern Syrian region of Rojava.

Sunday's parliamentary election will mark yet another milestone in Turkish political history, just five months after the election in which the Justice and Development Party (AKP) lost its single-party government for the first time in 13 years. The Nov.