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On 20.02.2024, it was reported that the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT) had uncovered the activities of the French Intelligence Directorate in Turkey. As part of the MIT operation, 3 people were arrested for allegedly spying for France for a year. According to the Turkish media, one of the “spies”, Ahmet Kati, along with two others were detained by MIT and Istanbul police while trying to leave Turkish territory after being warned by French intelligence.

On 21.02.2024 in Paris, a solemn state ceremony was held for the reburial of the remains of a French Resistance hero Missak Manouchian in the Pantheon, where the ashes of France’s greatest figures and sons – Hugo, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Marie and Pierre Curie, Voltaire, Emile Zola, Alexandre Dumas and others – rest.

ARVAK Center comment, 23.02.2024 On 18.02.2024 it became known, that France,...

On 14.02.2024, Turkish President R. Erdogan paid an official visit to Egypt for the first time in the last 11 years.

On 16.02.2024 it became known that in January this year Azerbaijan has exported to Israel more than 523.5 thousand tons of oil costing $296,947,000. These figures show that Israel took first place in the list of Azerbaijani oil importers and increased the volume of Azerbaijani hydrocarbons exactly during the operation of the Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip.

On 08.02.2024, the President of the European Council Charles Michel was among the first to congratulate Ilham Aliyev on his victory in the presidential elections, even though the official results of these elections will not be vowed until February 17.

According to EADaily, citing Azerbaijani sources, “State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan has collapsed revenues”. In January 2024, State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan (SOFAZ) revenues from Azeri–Chirag–Gunashli (ACG–the Azerbaijan’s largest oil block) amounted to $387.645.000, while, last January ACG revenues reached $625 million. The difference is more than obvious.

The events unfolding around Russian-Turkish relations may indicate that Ankara, figuratively speaking, is “packing bags” after a not so long, but stormy “political-economic romance” with Moscow.

On 02.08.2024, the Iranian news agency Tasnim, citing sources in the Iranian security agencies, reported that the country's special services detained a group of people preparing sabotage on Iranian territory.

Over a week after the attack on the US base near the Syrian–Jordanian border, the United States finally implemented the promised “retaliation strike”. According to the sources from CENTCOM (US Central Military Command), the US Air Force, launched three wave attack: “struck more than 85 targets in Syria and Iraq, using numerous aircraft, including long-range bombers.