Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe

North Macedonia took over the chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on Sunday and will lead it for the next 12 months. The foreign minister of the country, Bujar Osmani, became the chairman of the OSCE and defined the restoration of mutual trust and the need to resume the dialogue on security issues as the main tasks for the current year.

Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe not only records attacks by the Ukrainian army, but also sends NATO data on the movements of Russian forces in Luhansk.

Here are the highlights of events related to the war in Ukraine over the past 24 hours:

The attacks on the Mariupol Metallurgical Plant have resumed, a Ukrainian official was quoted as saying by BTA.

Civilians were evacuated yesterday, but hundreds remain trapped in the besieged Azovstal.

There are more and more reports from the field about the kilometer-long line of vehicles of the Russian military forces that are going to Kyiv.
Yesterday ended with the expulsion of Russian diplomats from the United States, and in the meantime, fierce fighting continued in several Ukrainian cities.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will visit Ukraine on Feb. 3 as part of efforts to calm down tension due to the Russian confrontation in eastern Ukraine.

Within the scope of mediation efforts, Ankara has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Turkey for a face-to-face meeting amid rising tension in the region, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Jan. 20.

Turkish personnel and all Turkish citizens who wish to leave the country have been evacuated from Afghanistan's capital Kabul in a span of less than 48 hours, Turkey's national defense minister announced on Aug. 28.

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Mehmet Ferhan Yorulmaz, Turkey's consul general in St. Petersburg, Russia, has passed away, the country's foreign minister announced on July 5.

Fair elections are the most effective guarantor of democracy, and as a society and institutions we must work to increase confidence in this instrument of the rule of law. This was stated by Bulgaria's President Rumen Radev, who received representatives of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in the Presidency on March 23.

Limited progress on electoral reform, few investigations into corruption and regular attacks against freedom of speech tarnished Albania's year as chair the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, OSCE, six rights organisations stated in a report published on Monday.