Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Bob Casey Jr. (D-Penn.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Jack Reed (D-R.I.) today introduced two resolutions to require Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to detail Azerbaijan’s and Turkey’s human rights abuses throughout the south Caucasus, within their own countries, and, in Turkey’s case, in Syria, Iraq, and Libya. The resolutions also require information on what role U.S. security assistance may be playing in these abuses to inform whether the United States should restrict or end security assistance and arms sales to those countries. Both resolutions invoke statutory authority under section 502B(c) of the Foreign Assistance Act (FAA).

The last act of a series of lawsuits that began seven years ago, a few days after the murder of Pavlos Fyssas in Keratsini, will be played today for those of the 39 convicts of the Golden Dawn criminal organization who are in the hands of the Authorities.

Turkish research vessel Oruc Reis is between Rhodes and Kastellorizo, where it will remain until October 27, when the new Turkish NAVTEX issued on Wednesday night expires.