Politics by country

By Panagiotis Ioakeimidis*

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, and the entire international community urge that there be a Greek-Turkish dialogue in order to defuse ongoing tensions.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan unveiled the "largest social housing project in Türkiye's history," which aims to help low-income citizens own houses and tackle problems regarding property prices and rents.

"It makes no sense to hold a referendum when, regardless of the result, the opposition VMRO-DPMNE does not plan to vote. Only one referendum makes sense - whether you are in favor of EU membership or not, all the other questions are a way of getting around the only real question. No one in the government is satisfied with the compromise that was made with Bulgaria".

The Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) awarded the leader of the extremist Serbian Radical Party (SRP), Vojislav Seselj, who in 2018 was sentenced to ten years in prison by the Hague Tribunal for inciting the persecution, deportation and forced displacement of Croats in the village of Hrtkovci in Vojvodina in 1992.

South Korea warned Tuesday North Korea that using its nuclear weapons would put it on a "path of self-destruction," in unusually harsh language that came days after North Korea legislated a new law that would allow it to use its nuclear weapons preemptively.

President Xi Jinping is using his first trip abroad since the start of the pandemic to promote China's strategic ambitions at a summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin and other leaders of a Central Asian security group.

The Treasury Department also announced sanctions against three companies & one individual involved in drones used by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

The two will discuss energy, among other things

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced on Sept. 12 that the government is on the path to "make the biggest investment" in Türkiye's education history, noting that regardless of circumstances, the government has always kept education as its priority.

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