Anadolu Agency

🇹🇷 Türkiye’s candidate for UN secretary-general, Feridun Sinirlioglu, pledges to prioritize resolving the Palestinian question and addressing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza

He calls for preserving, strengthening and, where necessary, reforming UNRWA

🚢On the Strait of Hormuz, he vows to prioritize freedom and safety of navigation, saying attacks on commercial vessels and threats to civilian seafarers are unacceptable, regardless of their source

Türkiye formally nominates OSCE Secretary-General Feridun Sinirlioglu as candidate for UN secretary-general

Nomination follows deadlock in UN Security Council selection process after latest straw poll ends inconclusively ⤵️

Candidates need at least 9 Security Council votes, with any of 5 permanent members able to veto a nominee https://v.aa.com.tr/4106998

📹 Türkiye's AKINCI and Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicles successfully land on and take off from Manisa–Balıkesir Highway during emergency scenario exercise

📌 Drill conducted in cooperation with Turkish Ministry of National Defense and General Directorate of Highways

A global outage affecting Microsoft services disrupts government institutions, public administrations, and other public services across several European countries

💻 Norway, Denmark, and the UK are affected by the outage, according to officials http://v.aa.com.tr/4124007

🇷🇺 Russia has reportedly demanded Finland leave NATO, a ban on NATO bases in the Baltic states and Ukraine’s permanent neutrality during Abu Dhabi peace talks

📌 Moscow also seeks to retain all currently occupied Ukrainian territory and gain control of the entire Donbas region, German media reports http://v.aa.com.tr/4123836