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President Nikos Christodoulides’ invitation to attend the Cop31 climate summit in Antalya came from the summit’s secretariat rather than Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish newspaper Milliyet reported on ...

The Republic of Cyprus was “the only recognised state on the island” represented at the Cop31 climate summit in Antalya, presidential press office director Victor Papadopoulos said on Thursday. Speaking ...

President Nikos Christodoulides was welcomed to the United Nations’ Cop31 climate summit by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, but not by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with the host country’s ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday stressed that the current status quo in Cyprus cannot constitute a permanent solution to the Cyprus problem, saying during his return flight from ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday welcomed Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman to Bestepe, Turkey’s presidential palace, and stressed the importance of Turkish Cypriots rights in any solution ...

When Turkey’s opposition made big gains in local elections in March 2024, its leaders believed they had finally found a way to defeat long-serving President Tayyip Erdogan. More than two ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said that the recently signed maritime deal between Libya’s eastern ‌parliament and Turkey was “blatantly illegal, null and void,” adding that it “completely disregards ...

US President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke by telephone on Wednesday regarding developments in the Middle East and the war in Ukraine, according to a statement ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stressed that his country is looking to securing its own interests in pursuing and ensuring the ratification of a maritime jurisdiction agreement with Libya, ...

NATO allies Canada and Turkey are expected to sign a joint declaration aimed at deepening bilateral cooperation in four areas, including defence and energy, during Prime Minister Mark Carney’s ...

The Cyprus problem was “all caused by Turkey” and its President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, United States Senator Rick Scott said on Friday, as he paid a visit to the island ...

President Nikos Christodoulides accused Turkey and its President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of taking a “new Ottoman approach” to its regional relations and described Erdogan as the “great obstacle” to solving ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday insisted that the “window of opportunity” for a solution to the Cyprus problem remains open, saying he was prepared to make concessions in pursuit of ...

A deputy chair of President Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling AK Party stepped down after an opposition politician accused her of making a large profit on shares just before a funds ...

Dr Thomas James Phillips Writing in the 19th century literary feuilleton Vremya (Time), the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky chastised the intelligentsia of his day for its revolutionary impatience. Having been ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday said that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan “illegally occupies northern Cyprus” in his address to the United Nations general assembly. “The latest country ...

The “sovereign equality and equal international status of the Turkish Cypriot people” must be recognised, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday, as he addressed the United Nations general ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday offered his condolences after a ferry bound for his country sank shortly after departing from the new port of Kyrenia earlier in the ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan extended his wishes to the Turkish Cypriot people as Turkey celebrates Victory Day, the 104th anniversary of the victory of Mustafa Kemal’s forces over ...

The Mecca Agreement, signed on August 7 by Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan, matters less for the alliance it creates than for the Middle East it may foreshadow. Turkish Foreign Minister ...

Turkey’s presidential communications directorate has described Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments on its President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s policies in Cyprus and Syria as a “groundless rant” ...

Turkey said on Friday it would seek an Interpol red notice for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as part of a domestic criminal case linked to an ...

Jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu said on Wednesday he was joining the newly formed New Party, after a court order removed the leadership of his former Republican People’s Party (...

Turkey will “not abandon” the Turkish Cypriots and will “continue to defend” what it considers their rights in the Levant, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, as UN Secretary-General ...