Turkiye's two day Abant Platform meeting has ended with a concensus that the government needs a strong ally in its democratization efforts.
The Swedish Parliament has followed the steps of a U-S congressional committee, and labled the killings of Anatolian Armenians during World War One as genocide.
Turkiye's Finance Ministry has launched an investigation into a tank modernization contract awarded to an Israeli firm. The probe is looking into technical failures in some of the tanks delivered by the company.