Turkey’s Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) has undertaken the responsibility to restore historic Ottoman documents that were damaged after protesters set fire to the presidency office in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo on February 7. The documents were badly damaged when fire ripped through the ground floor of the building and burned the state archives, which included documents from the Ottoman era. Immediately after hearing the news, TIKA officials contacted the head of the Bosnian state archives Shaban Zahirovic, who told them that up to 60% of the documents had been damaged while some may have been looted. Luckily most of the Ottoman files remain intact, but much of the Austrian-Hungary period files were lost.
Meanwhile, reports said Trans Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP) will ensure Turkey’s energy security and will transform Turkey into an energy hub in the region, says Samir Kerimli, the First Deputy Managing Director of the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) in Turkey.