Turkey potentially part of East Med friendship network
Turkey can be part of a network of friendship in the Eastern Mediterranean, the chairman of the House foreign affairs committee, Harris Georgiades, said on Wednesday.
His comments came after ...
Tatar congratulates Erdogan for winning elections in Turkey (updated)
Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar has congratulated Turkey’s president Recep Tayyp Erdogan following his victory in the presidential elections on Sunday.
Erdogan ended up with just over 52 per cent ...
Cyprus issues anti-Navtex over Turkey’s exercises in north Famagusta
For the first time this year, Turkey is reserving areas for ‘illegal’ exercises very close to the coast of Turkish-occupied Famagusta, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Sunday.
According to ...
‘No EastMed pipeline without Turkey’, ENI says
Cyprus on Friday issued a subdued response to comments from Italian energy giant ENI that for the construction of the controversial EastMed pipeline the participation of Turkey would be necessary.
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Turks in north back to the ballot for round two in Turkey elections
Voting for Turkish citizens begins on Saturday in the north in view of the second round of Turkey’s presidential elections on May 28, which will last for five days from ...
Voters in north gave Kilicdaroglu their backing
Although the race for a president in Turkey has gone to a second round, Kemal Kilicdaroglu got the backing of voters in the north of Cyprus on Sunday.
Among Turkish ...
Turkey votes in crucial elections, with Erdogan rule in balance (updated)
By Can Sezer and Orhan Coskun
ISTANBUL, May 14 (Reuters) – Turks voted in a pivotal election on Sunday, poised either to unseat President Tayyip Erdogan and halt his government’s increasingly ...
After 20 years, is Turkey finally tired of its angry father figure?
Today’s elections are a chance for mild-mannered, modest Kemal Kilicdaroglu to take over
There is earthquake diplomacy and there is earthquake democracy. Earthquake diplomacy is when diplomatic relations between ...
Turkey: a hundred years of culture war
Turkey’s elections are fairly free, and there is going to be one this Sunday. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been in power for two decades, and he should ...
Doctored video fuels tensions in Turkey’s close election race
A doctored video splicing footage of President Tayyip Erdogan’s main rival and a Kurdish militant chief and showing them uttering the same slogan has raised tensions ahead of a ...
‘We can’t afford anything’: Turkey’s cost-of-living crisis threatens Erdogan’s re-election
Istanbul barber Hakim Ekinci, a long-time supporter of Tayyip Erdogan, won’t be voting for the president next Sunday, blaming his economic policies for eroding Turks’ purchasing power and leaving ...
In Turkey, an election reckoning for the rise and fall of Erdogan’s economy
If Turks oust President Tayyip Erdogan in elections this month it will largely be because of an economic reversal that saw their prosperity, equality and ability to meet basic needs ...
Turkey’s Kilicdaroglu exits Erodogan’s shadow in election race
Stuck in Tayyip Erdogan’s shadow throughout his career, opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu believes his time has come to set Turkey on a new path and roll back much of ...
Turkish central bank sticks to inflation forecast of 22.3 per cent for 2023
Turkey’s central bank is sticking to its inflation forecast of 22.3 per cent for 2023, Governor Sahap Kavcioglu said on Thursday – less than half of market expectations – even though the decline ...
Turkey, gas and a knife-edge election
Turkey started natural gas production from its own massive Black Sea gasfield Sakarya on 20 April, less than three years after discovery. Sakarya is estimated to hold 710 billion cubic metres (bcm) ...
Turkey’s Baykar plans production of new air combat drone next year
Turkish defence firm Baykar aims to begin production of its new unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) next year which is already attracting international interest, its chairman Selcuk Bayraktar said.
Baykar ...
Turkish side ‘will take action’ over Aphrodite drilling
The Turkish Cypriot side will take action along with Turkey against the Cyprus government over a confirmatory drilling set to take place in the ‘Aphrodite’ gas field block 12, as they ...
‘Cyprus talks depend on outcome of Turkey elections’
Despite failed negotiation efforts for decades, President Nikos Christodoulides said Turkey’s elections may revive talks on the Cyprus problem.
In an interview with Politico published on Saturday, the president ...
Protests over Cyprus decision to extradite Kurdish politician to Germany (Updated)
Dozens of people on Thursday held a demonstration in front of the supreme court in Nicosia to protest the upcoming extradition of Kurdish activist Kenan Ayaz to Germany.
Ayaz was ...
Turkish interest rates climbing as election approaches
Interest rates in Turkey are rising amid expectations that government policies will become more orthodox no matter who wins May 14 elections, and after a regulatory change to make holding Turkish ...
Turkish Cypriot journalist barred from Turkey
Turkish Cypriot journalist Ulaş Barış was barred from entry to Turkey when he tried to travel there from the north, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Monday.
Two days earlier ...
‘Dangers of Turkification’ loom large in new Archbishop’s first Easter message
Archbishop Giorgios in his first Easter message, placed a heavy focus on the national issue, the ‘Turkification’ of the island and the influx of ‘Muslim immigrants’ channeled to the island ...
Cyprus will benefit from better Greek-Turkish relations says Dendias
The current improvement in Greek-Turkish relations can have both a positive impact both on the security and stability in the region as well as on efforts to resume talks on ...
Foreign minister speaks about efforts to resume talks
Nicosia has to convince the European Union and rest of the world of its readiness to resume Cyprus problem negotiations, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said on Sunday.
The minister referred ...