Turkey

The head of the Turkish Rodina party, Dogu Perincek, and one of Erdogan's competitors in the presidential elections, said in an interview that he recognizes Crimea as part of the territory of Russia.

The Turkish government has distributed these lists to local companies, Reuters reports.

The Turkish parliament plans to consider the ratification of Finland's membership in NATO before the presidential elections in the country, which are scheduled for May 14. This was announced by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan following talks with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto.

Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov during a briefing commented on the idea of nominating Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (pictured) for the Nobel Peace Prize. The Kremlin representative noted that Moscow highly appreciates the peacekeeping activities of the Turkish leader.

The further position will be determined depending on the real progress on the normalization of Russian agricultural exports, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

The decree on holding presidential elections was signed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Parallel import schemes, which the Russian authorities allowed to be used to circumvent sanctions, "stalled" at Turkish customs.

The country's Emergency Management Department reported that the death toll is 45,089 people.

On February 23, the Turkish authorities released new statistics, according to which the number of victims of the disaster increased by a thousand.

After the devastating earthquakes in Turkey, the authorities arrested more than 340 people on charges of looting or violating building construction rules.

In Turkey, 562 residents needed help, in Syria, according to the human rights monitoring center, more than 500.

As a result of the tremors on February 20, about 300 people were injured.

During the communication of the head of the Turkish Ministry of Health Fahrettin Koji with doctors and journalists, a strange explosion occurred, which was filmed by journalists of the AHaber TV channel.

According to Kommersant, during the construction of the Akkuyu NPP by Rosatom in southern Turkey, problems may arise with the supply of electrical equipment from Siemens Energy. At the moment, the German regulator has not issued the necessary package of permits for export.