Egemen Bağış

Turkish and Czech authorities have agreed to construct a park in Prague 6 (a district in the Czech capital) to mark the 100th anniversary of the friendship and diplomatic relations between the two countries, the municipal council has announced.

The Turkish Embassy's bid to install a 3-meter statue of modern Türkiye founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in the Czech capital Prague has been turned down by local authorities, the BBC has reported.

A powerful tornado swept through several villages in the South Moravia region of the Czech Republic on June 24, injuring at least 150 people and causing major damage, according to initial estimates.

There was serious damage in at least seven villages, with many homes destroyed, according to press statements from the South Moravia Fire Department.

Ozan Ceyhun, a former German-Turkish European Parliament MP, has been appointed as Turkey's ambassador to Austria.

His assignment decision, by the signature of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was published in the Official Gazette on Feb. 21.

Egemen Bağış, Turkey's former minister for EU affairs and later a chief negotiator for EU accession, will be appointed as the country's ambassador to Prague, a Turkish official has told Hürriyet Daily News. Bağış was a close aide to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan when he was prime minister. 

Egemen Bagis, Turkey's former chief negotiator in the country's EU accession talks and close aide to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, says he does not rule out the reopening of the Halki Theological School near Istanbul.

The relations between Ankara and Athens would improve via forthright communication despite controversial court rulings in both countries, Turkey's former European Union Affairs Minister Egemen Bağış has said.

It has been determined that a social media account used to target government figures and leak information in 2013 was created in the police’s intelligence headquarters in Ankara’s Çankaya district.

It has been determined that a social media account used to attack government figures and leak information in 2013 was created in the police's intelligence headquarters in the capital Ankara's Çankaya district.  

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who was fired on March 11, is in league with the followers of U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen against Turkey, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has said, adding that his firing was "totally the decision of the U.S. government."