Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Chavushoglu said during a meeting in Ankara with his Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan that steps to normalize relations between the two countries would be accelerated. The ministers also discussed the negotiation process between Armenia and Azerbaijan. 

The Khasavyurt City Court mitigated the measure of restraint and released policeman Shamil Aliyev from the detention center under house arrest. He and his partner had previously been found guilty of abuse of authority with violence and falsification of evidence, each being sentenced to three and a half years' imprisonment.

A native of Ingushetia living in Ukraine, activist Ruslan Youloy reported on a visit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs CPE staff to his father in the village of Yandar, Nazran district. This, in his view, is due to opposition activities.

The Khatai District Court of Baku considered a petition to transfer public activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev to house arrest. The defence based the request on the lack of investigative necessity to keep him in detention, as well as on his health due to the prolonged hunger strike. However, the court left the man in pre-trial detention.

Armenia sent a second batch of humanitarian aid to the earthquake victims in Turkey. 

Data on the Chechen refugee Amina Gerikhanova has been removed from the Schengen Information System (SIS) database. This means that women are not subject to requests for search and extradition from the Russian authorities.

On more than 10 occasions, Chechen investigative authorities refused to open a criminal case against police officers involved in the abduction and torture of 21-year-old labourer Hasan

Currently, the number of people killed by the disaster in Turkey is about 32,000. More wounded and many more under the rubble. 

Armenia was working on a peace treaty and would transmit it to Azerbaijan in the near future. This was reported in Yerevan by Security Council Secretary Armen Grigoryan.