#Turkey

The Cyprus issue is “in full swing” at the moment and it appears to be the top non-war priority of the United Nations, Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis has said. ...

Turkey’s main opposition leader on Sunday pledged further protests against the jailing of Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogan’s chief rival, aiming to sustain Turkey’s biggest demonstrations ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Saturday said he is “ready” to discuss the prospect of delineating the Republic of Cyprus’ maritime borders with the Republic of Turkey to the northwest of ...

Israel stepped up airstrikes on Syria overnight, declaring the attacks a warning to the new Islamist rulers in Damascus as it accused their ally Turkey on Thursday of trying to ...

Both Turkey and the north offered condemnation for the events held in the Republic of Cyprus to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of Eoka – the paramilitary organisation set ...

Hundreds of thousands of Turks protested in Istanbul on Saturday against the jailing of Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogan’s main rival, sustaining the largest demonstrations Turkey has seen ...

Many Turkish anti-government protesters said they were bracing for a long-term standoff after six nights of action and scattered clashes with police over the jailing of Istanbul’s mayor, rejecting ...

The north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel and Turkey’s Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz signed the latest financial protocol covering forthcoming financial provisions from Turkey to the north, with the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday stressed the importance of “what was avoided” at the enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem which took place in Geneva earlier in the week. In ...

Thousands of Turks ramped up protests on Thursday despite a ban on street gatherings over what they called the undemocratic detention of Istanbul’s mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, as the opposition ...

Turkish Cypriot politicians on Wednesday decried the arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu. Former Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci was among the first to react to Imamoglu’s arrest, being ...

Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was on Wednesday morning arrested, hours after his university degree was revoked and two days before his party the CHP was set to name him as ...

Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu’s degree was on Tuesday revoked by Istanbul University over a report which found that the university in northern Cyprus at which he began his studies ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will participate in the informal expanded format meeting on Cyprus to be held in Geneva tomorrow and March 18, Turkish Foreign Ministry sources quoted by the ...

The talks in Geneva between the Cypriot leaders and the guarantor powers Greece, Turkey and the UK next week convened by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in the hope that an ...

Talk of Cyprus joining Nato or an affiliated organisation has fizzled out in recent weeks – no surprise there, as the future of Nato itself seems to hang in the balance. ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan welcomed an agreement between the Kurdish-led and U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Syria’s new government, saying its full implementation would contribute ...

Cypriot members of the European Parliament on Tuesday called for Turkey to be excluded from the European Union’s plans to bolster its defence capabilities, with one MEP describing the ...

Cyprus is to push for “no different treatment of invaders” with regard to the European Union’s plans to boost its military defences, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said on Monday, ...

The United Kingdom’s Deputy Minister for Europe, Stephen Doughty, will meet with the two leaders in Cyprus on Friday, the Cyprus News Agency said on Wednesday. His schedule for ...

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 ...