The lawyer for Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who like the mayor is in jail under an expanding crackdown on Turkey’s opposition, told Reuters on Monday he faces “entirely fabricated” ...
Turkish authorities detained three more mayors from the main opposition party on Saturday, according to a prosecutor’s statement and media reports, expanding a months-long legal crackdown that has expanded ...
Turkish authorities arrested ten suspects in relation to wildfires that broke out across the country over the past week, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on Friday.
The wildfires killed at ...
The president of the European people’s party (EPP), Manfred Weber, has branded Turkey’s push for a two-state solution in Cyprus as “not only unacceptable but unrealistic and dangerous”, ...
Staff shortages at the north’s Ercan (Tymbou) airport forced control over airspace over northern Cyprus to be temporarily transferred to Turkey, the north’s air traffic controllers’ trade union ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Wednesday engaged in a verbal back-and-forth, attacking one another’s foreign policies on the matters of Gaza, ...
A Turkish Bayraktar TB2 unmanned combat aerial vehicle spent much of Monday morning circling in the skies above Cyprus, between Nicosia and Kyrenia.
The drone had earlier been flying off ...
UN chief’s personal envoy Maria Angela Holguin met with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Monday afternoon in Istanbul, as part of her latest round of regional consultations.
The ...
A new migration management centre was opened in the north on Thursday, with the aim of allowing the Turkish Cypriot authorities to better manage the phenomenon of irregular migration.
In ...
The lawyer of Kenan Ayaz, who was convicted last year of being a member of a proscribed terrorist organisation after being extradited from Cyprus to Germany, has requested that his ...
The Nicosia criminal court was on Tuesday shown a television interview of Turkish-Israeli property developer Simon Mistriel Aykut, as his trial for the alleged development and sale of €43 million worth ...
The United Nations secretary-general’s personal envoy for Cyprus, María Ángela Holguín Cuéllar, is expected to visit the island from May 24 to 31 for a new round of ...
Greece expressed its support for the European Commission’s announcement of Johannes Hahn as its special envoy for the Cyprus problem, though Turkey was less enamoured by the decision.
Greece’...
The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of missiles and related elements to Turkey for an estimated $304 million, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
The sale approval includes ...
Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Tuesday hailed the dissolution of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK), a proscribed terrorist organisation in Turkey and the European Union, which had officially announced ...
Turkey is ready to host talks on a ceasefire and permanent peace between Russia and Ukraine, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in a phone call ...
Turkey has donated a digger and a machinery transport vehicle worth €126,500 to the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus, it was announced on Tuesday.
The equipment was delivered through the ...
The International Coordinating Committee Justice for Cyprus (Pseka) has called for the rejection of any effort to reinstate Turkey in the programme for US F35 fighter jets or lift the ...
Last Monday the Athens newspaper Ta Nea reported that President Nicos Christodoulides proposed the opening of a Turkish port to ships under the Cyprus flag, in exchange for visas for ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday issued a warning to Turkish Cypriot trade unions over their opposition to the north’s ruling coalition’s decision to legalise the wearing ...
A total of five people were arrested at a small protest held near the new official residence of Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, which is due to be officially opened ...
Former Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who served under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, called for charges of treason to be brought against those suspected of having been involved in a ...
Turkish police charged May Day protesters in Istanbul on Thursday, detaining hundreds of people and dragging some away in buses after they tried to defy a ban on public gatherings ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday said that “historical problems” in Cyprus can be left behind with a two-state solution on the island.
“We believe that we can leave ...