ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey and Egypt could negotiate a maritime demarcation agreement in the eastern Mediterranean if their ties, which have been strained, allow for such a move, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday.
Last month, Egypt announced the start of a bid round for oil and natural gas exploration and exploitation in 24 blocks including some in the Mediterranean.
ISTANBUL, March 3 (Xinhua) -- Turkish police on Wednesday detained 10 foreigners in Istanbul for their suspected ties to the Islamic State, local media reported.
Simultaneous operations were carried out at 16 addresses to capture those allegedly involved in conducting activities in the city on behalf of the group, the state-run Anadolu agency reported.
The suspects, whose nationalities were not immediately clear, have been in conflict areas in Iraq and Syria for quite some time, the agency said.
CAIRO, March 2 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and his Sudanese counterpart Mariam al-Sadiq al-Mahdi stressed on Tuesday that Ethiopia's possible second phase filling of the Nile dam unilaterally would pose a direct threat to water security of Egypt and Sudan.
The remarks came during the two ministers meeting in Egypt's capital Cairo, where the two diplomats tackled a number of issues of common interest, according to a joint press statement released after the meeting.
02 Mar 2021; MEMO: Turkish restaurants reopened and many children returned to school on Tuesday after the government announced steps to ease COVID-19 restrictions even as cases edged higher, raising concerns among the top medical association, reports Reuters.
03 Mar 2021; MEMO: Morocco has told government departments to cease cooperation and contacts with Germany's embassy in the North African kingdom due in part to Berlin's stance over Western Sahara, a senior Moroccan diplomat said on Monday.
03 Mar 2021; MEMO: Lebanon's pound tumbled on Tuesday towards 10,000 to the dollar, a record low for a currency battered by a financial meltdown that has fuelled poverty and unrest, reports Reuters.
The collapse, on a scale Lebanon has never seen, has slashed about 85% of the currency's value in a country relying heavily on imports.
03 Mar 2021; MEMO: Around 1,800 former Israeli security and Mossad officials have written to US President Joe Biden calling on him not to rejoin the nuclear deal with Iran, Israeli i24 TV reported on Monday. The signatories of the letter are apparently concerned that the US will rejoin the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), from which Donald Trump withdrew his country in 2018.
03 Mar 2021; MEMO: Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said that the country's army is "professional" and "distant from politics", adding that he considers "almost all the demands" of what he called the "genuine popular movement" have been met.
In an interview broadcast by state television, Tebboune said that the ruling system in Algeria is transparent, confirming that the army has entered a professional phase and is far from politics, according to the Anadolu Agency.
03 Mar 2021; MEMO: Some 41 Egyptian opposition figures on Monday called on the Biden administration to take action against the Egyptian regime, saying it had committed "crimes that are worse than the [Jamal] Khashoggi murder."
ANKARA (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that Turkey would strengthen the right to a fair trial as well as freedoms of expression and organisation in the country as part of what his government has called a Human Rights Action Plan.
The plan, promised in recent months as part of a series of legal and economic reforms, would also improve the judiciary system, Erdogan said at the presidential palace in Ankara.
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