#Turkey

By Sabine Siebold European Union sanctions against Turkey remain on the table, Germany warned on Monday, after Ankara decided to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention, a pact designed to counter ...

Scores of Turkish Cypriots participated in a protest rally on Monday against the economic protocol the north signed with Turkey arguing that such agreements only consolidate Ankara’s grip. The ...

The exploratory talks between Greece and Turkey and the negotiations for the solution of the Cyprus issue “must reach a satisfactory conclusion and cannot go on endlessly – time is not ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and European Union chiefs discussed eastern Mediterranean tensions and Turkey-EU ties in a video call on Friday, ahead of an EU summit due to address fraught ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday stressed the important role the EU can play in during the informal conference on the Cyprus issue that will take place next month in Geneva. ...

Cyprus has been receiving the biggest flow of migrants in proportion to its population, which is threatening to change its demographics, a presidential aide said on Friday, ahead of a ...

The EU will be present at the conference on Cyprus, convened by the UN, both in the initial phase in Geneva and in the next phase of in-depth negotiations, a ...

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu will meet in Ankara on April 14, officials said on Wednesday, in a renewed effort to ease months of heightened ...

Political leaders in their majority said they would accompany President Nicos Anastasiades to the informal five-party summit set to take place next month in Geneva to support and advise him, ...

The EU and the Council of Europe (CoE) are watching “with serious concern” any attempt to undermine the freedom of the press in the Turkish Cypriot community through persecution and ...

By Dr Louisa Borg Haviaras Half of the Aegean Sea and the maritime area up to eastern Crete are part of Turkey’s ‘blue homeland’ concept, maintained, supported and promoted ...

The island’s two community leaders reiterated on Monday their divergent positions on a Cyprus solution during their separate meetings with UN secretary-general’s special envoy Jane Holl Lute who ...

But with deep divisions remaining Egypt is treating Turkey’s overtures cautiously This has been a bewildering week for Cypriot diplomacy – and a tough one, too, for its much-vaunted new ...

The EU will be an observer at the five-plus-one summit on the Cyprus problem as it has been in the past, European Council President Charles Michel said on Friday. Replying ...

President Nicos Anastasiades said Thursday he would participate in an informal meeting with the political will to find common ground with the Turkish Cypriots that would lead to substantive negotiations ...

As part of their regular contacts, President Nicos Anastasiades spoke by phone on Sunday with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macros, government spokesman Kyriakos Koushos said in a written statement. During ...

President Nicos Anastasiades and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen have agreed that the EU needs to be represented at the informal meeting on Cyprus, which will be called ...

Turkish expediencies seem to be behind the uncertainty about the date and place of the informal five-party conference on Cyprus to be convened by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, reports said ...

Turkey will only join talks to resolve decades of dispute over Cyprus with a proposal to establish two states on the island, presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said on Thursday, adding ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday there was no other solution to the Cyprus issue but a two-state solution. He also said that whether Greece accepts it or not, ...

By Tuvan Gumrukcu Turkey aims to achieve first contact with the moon as part of its national space programme in 2023, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday. “The first rough landing ...

Turkey is looking to buy a fourth drillship and has struck a preliminary deal, according to media reports. The drillship is the Bolette Dolphin, built in 2014 by South Korea’s ...

The place and date of an informal five-party conference on Cyprus, which the UN Secretary-General intends to convene, remain uncertain, while Nicosia fears that Ankara is playing “games” with the ...

Qatar and ‘Arab Quartet’ deal may prove too thin a piece of paper to cover major regional cracks After three-and-a-half years of hostility between Qatar and the ‘Arab Quartet’ – Egypt, ...