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Berlin – President Borut Pahor argued in an interview for Der Spiegel in favour of continued arms supplies to Ukraine and warned of the unpredictability of Vladmir Putin, saying it could lead to a nuclear conflict. He warned against underestimating the Russian military and noted the risk of the conflict spreading to Moldova, Georgia and the Western Balkans.

Turkey is a state of rule of law and has independent justice, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said, defying internal and external criticisms regarding the aggravated life sentence given to businessman Osman Kavala in the Gezi trial.

A Catholic church in the Black Sea province of Samsun has an iftar event on April 22, with the priest reading the Ramadan message of Pope Francis.

"The more we, people from different religions, live together in peace, the more we will be protecting the human dignity," said Marcelo Cisneros, the priest of Mater Dolorosa Church.

"Putin actually invented all these explanations that NATO is a threat to Russia. If we go back 20 years, when I was the prime minister, and he had the first presidential term, we see that Russia then had excellent relations with the United States and NATO in general", Kasyanov said.

A German engineer who has pedaled to 11 countries in Europe in the last two years has arrived in the southern province of Antalya after entering Turkey via the Greek border in December 2021.

Hundreds of international and local freight trucks are diverting their route to avoid conflict in Ukraine to use a border crossing on Turkey's border with Georgia in order to deliver goods to their destinations via the Caucasus, causing
kilometers-long lines on the highways.

Ljubljana – Prime Minister Janez Janša has labelled the atrocities Russia is believed to have committed in Bucha, a city close to Kyiv, crimes against humanity, likening them to the execution of Poles in Katyn in 1940 by the Soviet Union.

CarrefourSA, one of Turkey's largest retailers, plans to add 300 new outlets to its vast network of supermarkets this year.

"Some 250 of the stores will open under the franchising system. In 2022, already 80 such stores were launched by March," said Kutay Kartallığoğlu, the general manager of CarrefourSA.

Foreign Minister Teodora Genchovska took part in an extraordinary meeting of the foreign ministers of the EU member states, held on the evening of February 27, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced. Steps to support Ukraine and provide humanitarian aid were discussed.

Ljubljana – Prime Minister Janez Janša has warned of a domino effect if Ukraine falls, noting in an interview that the country’s fate was instrumental not just for Europe but the world as a whole. He thinks now is the time for Europe to wean itself of its energy dependence on Russia.