Hungarian embassy

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hosted Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Ankara on Dec. 12 for talks focusing on regional conflicts and bilateral relations.

Discussions centered on the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, exploring pathways to peace as well as enhancing cooperation between the two countries.

A series of nearly 100 cultural events are underway to mark the centennial of diplomatic relations between Türkiye and Hungary.

A Hungarian ballet group performed in the capital Ankara on Sept. 22, the 96th event in the series, as part of broader efforts to showcase Hungarian culture in Türkiye.

"Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbn's allies will meet in Washington with Republicans behind closed doors to end the allocation of US military support to Ukraine," the text states.
Some Republican members of Congress have been invited to take part in the closed-door talks, a Republican source told the British newspaper.

Australia's wildfires have led to the closure of a number of embassies in the Canberra capital, where local authorities have threatened to smoke in the area over the weekend due to hot and windy weather, the Financial Times reports.

The head of the Estonian Diplomatic Mission in Australia, Kersti Eesmaa, confirmed that the Estonian Embassy has moved to Sydney.

In his first TV appearance since he escaped from Macedonia to Hungary in November last year, former Macedonian prime minister and former VMRO DPMNE party leader Nikola Gruevski said he fled from Macedonia after "reliable sources" warned him that the new government was plotting to assassinate him.

Data from the Macedonian, Albanian and Montenegrin police now paint a relatively accurate picture of former prime minister Nikola Gruevski's escape route through the Balkans to Hungary to avoid serving a two-year prison sentence.

Macedonia has in the meantime issued an arrest warrant for the former prime minister, who has been sentenced to two years in prison for abuse of office during the purchase of an armored Mercedes car, while Gruevski is now seeking political asylum in Hungary.

Romania is resisting pressure to rush through legislation to regulate offshore exploitation of its Black Sea gas deposits - amid a spat with Hungary over the lack of infrastructure and the slow progress in adopting relavant legislation so far.  

The Hungarian embassy says Budapest's measures for reduction of illegal migrations do not affect the functioning of border crossings between the two countries.

According to a statement issued on Thursday by the Hungarian diplomatic mission to Serbia, "plans are being made for opening new crossings."

The number of Kosovo Albanians trying to illegally enter the European Union is on the rise, with the Hungarian Police reporting that 880 people from Kosovo were arrested on Sunday and a total of around 4,400 in the period from Friday to Sunday.