Security forces have killed hundreds of Brotherhood supporters and arrested thousands, including most of it leaders.

“We Kurds, in the name of our ancestors, apologize for the massacres and deportations of the Armenians and Assyrians in 1915,” Demirbaş said.

“We presume that Iran, as any other state, has a right to peaceful use of atomic energy, including enrichment operations,” Putin said.

Protests have rumbled on intermittently since the summer, but intensified again this week after a 22-year old man died during clashes.

“Parajanov,” co-produced with Ukraine, France, Georgia and Armenia, was named the best feature film at Odessa Festival.

Twitter filed for an IPO confidentially under a 2012 law intended to help emerging corporations with less than $1bn in revenue go public.

Other fighters then opened fire on the consulate. Several Afghan police are reported to have been killed and injured in the gun battle.