#Turkey

Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu’s lawyer Mehmet Pehlivanli on Tuesday announced that he had filed criminal charges against the three people who had signed a report which declared that the ...

Omer Faruk Karaguzel, the lawyer of Turkey’s ambassador in the north Yasin Ekrem Serim, on Wednesday threatened to “use our legal rights against baseless news and slander” after Turkish ...

An investigation has been launched in Turkey into Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu over allegations that documents related to his transfer from a university in northern Cyprus to one in Turkey ...

Pakistan “fully supports the cause of northern Cyprus”, the country’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Thursday. “Turkey has always stood by the just cause of the people of ...

A group of 27 cultural associations, mainly comprising Turkish nationals living in the north, on Thursday defended the Cyprus Turkish educators’ union (Kibtes)’ demand that more religion classes be taught in ...

United Nations under-secretary-general for peacebuilding Rosemary DiCarlo on Thursday afternoon met Turkish deputy foreign minister and European Union affairs director Mehmet Kemal Bozay in Ankara. The meeting was the latest ...

Turkey has lifted trade and transit restrictions on Syria at the countries’ border, the trade ministry said on Tuesday, progressing with plans to expand trade after the fall of Syrian ...

Turkey has for the second time in the space of six months sacked its ‘ambassador’ in the north, according to reports on Tuesday. Multiple news outlets reported that Yasin Ekrem ...

Turkish Cypriot opposition party CTP ‘MP’ Sami Ozuslu on Monday decried a lack of progress on the issue of Turkish Cypriots being refused entry to Turkey. At present, it is ...

The north’s authorities on Thursday announced their intention to end the practice of “double jeopardy” conscription, in which Turkish Cypriot men in Turkey who are also Turkish citizens were ...

Members of Turkey’s parliament were on Wednesday night incensed by the commencement of drilling for natural gas off the coast of Cyprus and a perceived lack of government action ...

Turkish ambassador to the European Union Faruk Kaymakci on Sunday called for Cyprus to think of other European Union member states and allow the EU-Turkey high-level energy dialogue to restart. ...

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas on Thursday cited Cyprus among a number of issues facing Turkey’s candidacy to join the EU. Speaking to Turkey’s Anadolu Agency ...

The north has averted a looming energy crisis after a boat carrying fuel oil to power its power stations, which had initially been seized by the Turkish authorities, was allowed ...

The north’s energy supply may be in peril after a boat carrying fuel oil to power its power stations was seized by the Turkish authorities as part of a ...

The north on Tuesday night announced it would remain in a period of mourning until sunset on Wednesday following the deaths of 76 people in a fire in a hotel at ...

Government Spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis stated on Friday that the government does not fear a shift in US policy towards Cyprus under Donald Trump, despite Turkey’s strong objections to the ...

The Turkish foreign ministry on Thursday night condemned the United States’ decision to allow the Republic of Cyprus to purchase military hardware directly. “We condemn the decision made by the ...

By Daren Butler, Ece Toksabay, Umit Ozdal Talks aimed at ending a 40-year-old militant conflict have fostered peace hopes in Turkey but the precarious situation of Kurdish forces in Syria ...

The Republic of Cyprus is “undermining stability under the guise of humanitarian aid” in the Middle East, Turkish Defence Minister Yasar Guler said on Thursday. Speaking as his ministry brings ...

Turkey will carry out a cross-border offensive into northeastern Syria against the Kurdish YPG militia if the group does not meet Ankara’s demands, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on ...

Turkey announced on Sunday a $14 billion (€13.4bn) regional development plan that aims to reduce the economic gap between its mainly Kurdish southeast region and the rest of the country. The ...

Thousands of people protested in Turkey’s capital Ankara on Saturday to demand a bigger hike in the minimum wage, chanting slogans calling on the government to resign and waving ...

“There is no Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, but a Turkish Republic of Cyprus,” Turkish parliamentary defence committee chairman and ruling AK Party MP Hulusi Akar said on Saturday. Akar, ...