#Turkey

A squadron of Turkish fighter jets on Thursday carried out flybys over Kyrenia, in what was a practice flight ahead of ‘celebrations’ in the occupied north marking the anniversary of ...

The European Union is “ready” to discuss the updating of its customs union with Turkey in exchange for “cooperation” on the Cyprus problem, the Cyprus Mail understands. Sources close to ...

Three days into COP31 in Antalya, the atmosphere is subdued. Implementation, electrification and finance dominate discussions, but the absence of major world leaders and weakening financial commitments raise questions about ...

World leaders will set out their climate priorities in speeches at COP31 in Turkey on Wednesday, as negotiators seek agreement on a plan to increase the share of electricity in ...

Turkey’s directorate-general of coastal safety on Tuesday night issued a navtex, a message used to transmit information to seaborne vessels, to warn sailors of planned seabed surveys in the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides flies to Antalya, Turkey, on Tuesday afternoon to participate in the Cop31 UN climate change conference, following an official invitation as a result of “systematic and coordinated ...

A blast at a steel and iron manufacturing plant in western Turkey on Monday killed 16 people, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said after a cabinet meeting. An explosion took place at ...

United Nations Cyprus problem envoy Maria Angela Holguin has offered her support to Costa Rican diplomat Rebeca Grynspan’s campaign to succeed Antonio Guterres as the organisation’s next secretary-general, ...

Cyprus has launched an international campaign to prevent the election of the Turkey’s Feridum Sinirlioglu to the position of Secretary General of the United Nations, it was reported on ...

By Ali Kucukgocmen Local official Nejla Isik is among the villagers living beside a coal mine who demand that world leaders gathering in Turkey for COP31 climate talks leave the ...

Cyprus and Greece have challenged Turkey’s candidate for UN secretary-general, Feridun Sinirlioglu, as he pledged “impartiality” without addressing most of their questions directly. Cyprus’ ambassador to the UN, Maria ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has played down the row over the Greece-Cyprus electricity cable surveys, as the French research vessel Abeille Marengo prepares to sail from Heraklion. Asked by ...

The French research vessel Abeille Marengo is set to sail from Heraklion to begin seabed surveys for the electricity cable between Greece and Cyprus. The Marengo is due to head ...

Cyprus has informed the United Nations that Turkish research vessels are carrying out seabed surveys in its waters for a planned natural gas pipeline to the occupied north. The letter, ...

Greece’s Independent Power Transmission Operator (Admie) and Great Sea Interconnector SA announced on Friday that the Greek and Cypriot authorities have issued the necessary Navtex maritime notices for seabed ...

Turkey has issued a new counter-Navtex challenging the Republic of Cyprus’ authority to issue maritime notices for an area of the eastern Mediterranean which Ankara claims forms part of its ...

Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said a planned natural gas pipeline linking Turkey and the breakaway Turkish Cypriot community could eventually provide power to the entire ethnically split island. Turkey ...

By Joanna Christodoulides It is no secret that Turkey is an important partner to the EU – or what Brussels would call a “strategic” partner. As crises multiply and the EU ...

Turkey’s parliament on Thursday ratified the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement, a defence pact between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, clearing the way for Ankara to send military support to ...

The US Treasury issued fresh sanctions on Wednesday against companies and individuals based in Tukey and India for their support of Iran, warning that it would continue to go after ...

The European Commission on Wednesday called on Turkey to “normalise” its relations with the Republic of Cyprus, as it presented its annual report on the country’s progress towards accession ...

In December 1982, ambassador Andrew Jacovides signed the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Unclos) for the Republic of Cyprus (RoC) at Montego Bay, Jamaica. It crowned years ...

Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis on Saturday said that the candidacy of Turkish diplomat Feridun Sinirlioglu constituted a “political oxymoron and a deep institutional contradiction”. “It is, indeed, an oxymoron for ...

The Republic of Cyprus has reiterated its position that the 2019 Turkey-Libya MoU on maritime delimitation is “null and void”. Speaking during a UN Security Council open debate on emerging technologies ...