Eight are the countries that are temporarily excluded from US sanctions against Tehran.

China, India, South Korea, Turkey, Italy, Greece, Japan and Taiwan. As US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo has said, these countries will be allowed to continue buying and thus importing oil and gas from Iran.

The Mediterranean was once a Turkish lake, said the leader of the nationalist party, MHP Devlet Bahceli, saying the Turkish nation still has the will to smash the pirates' heads.

At a moving ceremony at the National World War II Memorial in Washington, DC on October 25, Michael Johnson received the 2018 Jaharis Service Award.