Airport security and border controls are expected to be tightened further following the Paris attacks.
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Earlier on Saturday, four suspected IS militants were shot dead by the army when they approached an army checkpoint in Gaziantep.
As the Group of 20 (G20) summit opens in the Turkish Mediterranean resort of Antalya, the global community is looking up to the leaders of the world’s most influential economies to come up with strong agreements to fulfill G20’s mandate of promoting strong, balanced and sustainable growth across the globe.
President Robert Mugabe is in Antalya, Turkey to attend the G20 summit which begins tomorrow Sunday.
He said the G20 views the “engagement” with Malaysia and Asean as important towards efforts in formulating its policies and also development growth at the global level.
Mr Abe told Mr Turnbull at a bilateral meeting on Saturday in Antalya that the attack in Paris showed the need for solidarity with countries such as Australia, as it represented “challenges against the values we share and values we seek to defend”. “Which is why I urge the United Nation to not waste time anymore and define terrorism immediately”, Prime Minister Modi said after unveiling the statue of philosopher Basaveshwara in London.
The same day, IS claimed responsibility for the gun and suicide attacks that killed 129 people across Paris late Friday.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose guests include Obama, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s President Xi Jinping, has insisted that the perils posed by Syria are casting a shadow on world security and stability, and therefore on the global economy.
Turkey’s capital of Ankara suffered a terrorist attack on October 10 that killed more than 100 civilians and injured hundreds more.
The refugee crisis in Europe is high up the agenda, amid fears that Islamic extremist group ISIS is making good on its pledge to hide operatives among the wave of refugees fleeing Syria.
Selahattin Demirtas, co-leader of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish opposition HDP, said the Paris attacks were a result of the world’s failure to deal with Islamic State (ISIL).
“Terrorism has no nationality or religion”.
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About the fight in Syria, he said: “We had a chance to discuss the fighting against Daesh in Syria with Mr. Obama and the next steps we will take as [part of] coalition forces”.
