#Turkey

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos will brief his EU counterparts on the latest attempts of Turkey to upgrade the illegal breakaway regime at the Organization of Turkic States. According to an ...

The Cyprus problem was among the issues discussed during the two-hour meeting foreign ministers of Greece and Turkey had on Friday, in Athens, where they expressed their differing positions on ...

The European Union “attaches particular importance to the resumption and progress of talks for a solution to the Cyprus problem” for the further development of relations between itself and Turkey, ...

Turkish Cypriots on Tuesday are marking the 101st anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Turkey, which took place on October 29, 1923. A ceremony is set to take place in ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday addressed the 79th United Nations General Assembly, focusing on Cyprus’ role in promoting peace in the Eastern Mediterranean, condemning ongoing conflicts, and highlighting the persistent ...

Turkey on Thursday condemned this week’s signing of a roadmap to boost two-way defence co-operation between the United States and the Republic of Cyprus. The US steps, including last ...

The court case over the death of a Cypriot medical student who was electrocuted during a flood in the Turkish Aegean city of Izmir in July began on Thursday. Ozge ...

Turkish Cypriot travel agencies’ association (Kitsab) chairman Orhan Tolun called for the north’s Ercan (Tymbou) airport to be treated as a domestic airport by Turkey. His call comes amid ...

Pressure has been piling on the government this week after Kurdish activist Kenan Ayaz was sentenced to four years and three months in prison for being a ‘member of a ...

New samples were taken from the wreckage of the Isias hotel in the Turkish city of Adiyaman, where 35 Cypriots and 37 others were killed during last year’s earthquakes, as scientific ...

Netflix’s Middle East public policy director Pelin Mavili has been summoned to speak at the Turkish parliamentary digital media committee over its decision to air Famagusta TV series, committee ...

Two sailors from the United States’ amphibious assault ship the USS Wasp were attacked by a crowd in the Turkish Aegean city of Izmir on Monday evening. The sailors were ...

Cyprus has evaluated as positive the unofficial EU foreign affairs council meeting with Turkey’s participation, the government spokesman said on Friday. Speaking to CyBC, Konstantinos Letymbiotis said Nicosia was ...

Relations between the EU and Turkey, as well as the Cyprus problem, will be discussed at a working lunch on Thursday between the EU foreign ministers and their Turkish counterpart ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has accepted an invitation to attend a European Union ministers meeting in Brussels next week along with Cyprus’ Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos, it was reported ...

A research vessel conducting surveys of the seabed for the proposed electricity cable linking Greece and Cyprus was this week being monitored at a distance by the Turkish navy, but ...

New Turkish ambassador in the north Yasin Ekrem Serim on Tuesday pledged to “try my best to bring the Turkish Cypriot people and Turkish citizens living here to the sunlit ...

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan does not often go along with the geopolitical concerns of the US and Europe. He belongs to the generation of Turkish politicians whose outlook is ...

Turkish Cypriots “cannot be linobambaki”, the north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli said on Thursday. Speaking on the 453rd anniversary of the Ottoman conquest of Cyprus in 1571, he described August ...

Turkish Cypriot political leadership figures lined up behind Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan following a spat between Erdogan and Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz. Erdogan had on Sunday night warned ...

Promoting Cyprus’ geostrategic role as a pillar of stability and security in the region strengthens its own efforts for a viable and functional solution of the Cyprus problem, President Nikos ...

Turkish opposition political party CHP leader Ozgur Ozel on Thursday evening said the north is not a “baby homeland”, but in fact a “sister country”. Ozel was speaking at late ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday called for negotiations for a solution to the Cyprus problem to resume. Speaking during his arrival at the European Political Community summit in ...

“Turkey would have pulled out of Cyprus” if the attempted coup d’état which was performed in the country in 2016 had succeeded, Turkish ambassador in northern Nicosia Metin Feyzioglu said ...