De Utrechtse burgemeester Sharon Dijksma heeft haar steun uitgesproken voor de veroordeelde burgemeester Ekrem Imamoglu van Istanbul. Dijksma deed dat donderdag in een digitale bijdrage aan een internationale burgemeestersbijeenkomst in de Turkse hoofdstad.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has expressed his condolences over an explosion in Istanbul that killed at least six people and injured more than 80 others.
The Joint Coordination Center, which will take care of the export of grain and other foodstuffs from the ports of Ukraine through the Black Sea, has opened officially in Istanbul.
A meeting between the military delegations of the defense ministries of Turkey, Ukraine and Russia, as well as the UN delegation, to discuss the export of grain from Ukraine via the Black Sea ended in Istanbul.