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The Turkish Foreign Ministry has condemned the deadly April 20 attack targeting police officers on the Champs-Elysees in the French capital.      

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has sent his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, a message condemning the deadly metro blast in St. Petersburg on April 3, a presidential source said April 4.      

In the message sent on April 3, Erdoğan condemned the "horrific" attack which claimed at least 14 lives and injured dozens, the source said.

Bulgaria's President Rumen Radev has condemned yesterday's bombing in the St. Petersburg metro, during which eleven people were killed and many more injured.

The Greek Foreign Ministry on Monday night issued a statement expressing support for the people of Russia following a bomb attack on the St Petersburg metro earlier in the day that killed 11 people.

The Greek Foreign Ministry issued a statement on the explosions that rocked St. Petersburg train station, Monday, expressing its solidarity with the Russian people. The blast resulted in the death of nine people and the injury of 50. The statement extended its deepest condolences to the families of the victims and wished the injured a speedy recovery.

At least ten people died on Monday, while 50 more, children among them, were injured in two simultaneous explosions at two stations of the St. Petersburg metro.

Authorities suspect that the explosions, that occurred inside trains, were acts of terrorism.

Turkey expects Austrian authorities to arrest the perpetrators of an attack against the Turkish Embassy and ensure the security of the Turkish diplomatic missions in the country, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement on late March 22. 

Top Turkish officials condemned the suspected terrorist attack outside Britain's parliament on March 22 in which five people were killed and around 40 injured.  
     
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sent a letter of condolences to British Prime Minister Theresa May.  
    

It goes without saying that every Western diplomatic mission in Turkey must have reviewed security measures around their compounds - not only after intensified threats from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) but also after the failed July 15 coup, which saw a rise in anti-Western feelings here. 

The Turkish Foreign Ministry said late March 11 that it has conveyed to the Netherlands its wish for the Dutch ambassador to Ankara to "not return to his post for a while," amid a row over the Dutch government's decision to cancel Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu's flight permit.