#Turkey

The European Parliament expressed serious concern that in recent years, despite being a candidate country, Turkey’s government has pursued a continuous and growing distancing from EU values and standards, ...

The defence ministers of Cyprus, Greece and Egypt met in Nicosia on Wednesday to further strengthen military ties. In their joint statement following the 4th trilateral defence ministers΄ meeting, the ...

President Tayyip Erdogan called on the United Nations and Muslim countries on Friday to halt the worst fighting between Israel and Gaza militants in years, saying Turkey would support any ...

An Italian fishing boat was attacked by at least ten Turkish boats in the north on Tuesday morning, according to Italian newspaper La Republica. The boat, Michele Giacalone, was located ...

EU leaders are clear that Turkey`s position on Cyprus solution cannot be accepted or tolerated, President Nicos Anastasiades has said. The president who is in Porto for the EU ...

For the second year running, President Nicos Anastasiades told locked-down Cypriots he hoped this would be the last Easter that was overshadowed by the pandemic. In his Easter televised address ...

Government spokesman Kyriacos Koushos said on Friday that any prospects for a positive result that would allow the restart of substantive talks on the Cyprus problem depended on the Turkish ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday he does not believe a United Nations-led meeting on restarting peace talks for the ethnically split Cyprus will yield results. On Thursday, the ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar has criticised US President Joe Biden’s recognition of the genocide of Armenians in 1915. Tatar took to Twitter to “condemn the US President’s unfortunate ...

President Erdogan’s comments raise important issues concerning the independence of the judiciary and a conflict between Turkey’s responsibility for securing human rights in the north By Alper Ali ...

Turkey might, as a tactic, state at the Geneva Cyprus summit that it is willing to discuss a federal solution, Disy leader Averof Neophytou warned on Thursday, warning that an ...

The Cyprus LNG plant and the East Med pipeline under the spectre of the Turkish ‘blue homeland’ in the East Med’s energy game By Panayiotis Tilliros The geopolitical and ...

The Greek Cypriot side wants to impose a federal solution in Cyprus but when this form of solution was on the table, they rejected it, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu ...

Two separate states and sovereign equality have no place in a Cyprus settlement, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Friday in response to Turkey’s views on the issue, which were ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan threatened Turkish Cypriots with repercussions after a court in the breakaway state terminated the teaching of the Quran in schools. According to the Turkish Cypriot news ...

Ruling Disy on Friday expressed its support to one of its MP candidates, Mina Sampson, who said she has been receiving threats from people in the north and Turkey over ...

Turkey’s central bank banned the use of cryptocurrencies and crypto assets to purchase goods and services, citing possible “irreparable” damage and significant transaction risks in a move that cooled ...

Turkish Airlines is to reinstate two of its Boeing 737 MAX aircraft next week after Turkey’s civil aviation authority gave its approval, a source familiar with the matter said on ...

Cyprus has asked EU borders agency Frontex marine patrols to halt migrants sailing from Turkey`s southern coast to the island`s north Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said, speaking during ...

Expectations from the informal summit on the Cyprus problem set to take place in Geneva at the end of this month hinge on Turkey’s positions, President Nicos Anastasiades said ...

A professional soldier in the north had to attend his wedding party in Turkey virtually because he was unable to travel due to pandemic restrictions, it emerged on Thursday. According ...

The State Department has issued further sanctions against Turkish defence industry SSB, its president and other officials over the possession of Russian S-400 missiles. A press release said the Secretary ...

You know things are serious when supermarkets start locking away baby formula. Over the past year, 28,000 people in Turkey might have died of Covid-19. But what is affecting people more ...

Greece accused Turkey on Friday of trying to provoke it by attempting to push boats carrying migrants into Greek waters. Greece and Turkey disagree on a range of issues, including ...