#Turkey

Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev said on Monday that “the president of the TRNC will attend” an upcoming summit of the Organisation of Turkic States (OTS) in his country. Aliyev was ...

By Jonathan Shkurko and Tom Cleaver Deputy government spokesperson Yiannis Antoniou on Monday described as “unacceptable” the position of the British High Commissioner in Cyprus, who said that Turkish Cypriots ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Sunday his country is “trying to solve the Cyprus problem by expanding the bounds of diplomacy.” Fidan was speaking to Turkish television channel ...

Canada on Monday said it had dropped weapons export controls to Turkey, including drone optical technology, according to a notice posted online, saying that from now on it would review ...

Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz said on Thursday that there are two separate states in Cyprus and there is no need to try things that had been tried repeatedly. Opening ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said on Sunday that he would welcome a dialogue with Ankara on natural gas, before solving the Cyprus problem, only if it was between the Republic ...

President Nikos Christodoulides requested the UN intervene on Cyprus’ behalf to stop Turkish violations in the buffer zone, it emerged on Sunday. In a letter to the United Nations Secretary-General ...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was meeting the leaders of Turkey and Greece on Saturday at the start of a week-long trip aimed at calming tensions that have ...

Ahmet Bozkurt, the owner of the Isias hotel in the Turkish city of Adiyaman, and his two sons Mehmet Fatih Bozkurt and Efe Bozkurt, saw their applications for release rejected ...

Cypriot journalist Guren Tilki was released late on Friday evening, after having arrested in Turkey earlier that day for allegedly insulting the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘MP’ and head of the north’s ‘parliamentary’ justice committee Oguzhan Hasipoglu made an extraordinary intervention to reporters on Friday regarding the trial of those held responsible for ...

U.S. top diplomat Antony Blinken will return to the Middle East on Thursday, continuing the Biden administration’s intense diplomacy over Israel’s three-month long conflict with Hamas, as ...

The trial of 11 suspects held responsible for deaths of 24 Turkish Cypriot children and 11 of their teachers and coaches when a hotel they were staying in collapsed began on Wednesday. The ...

Workers earning the minimum wage in the north are earning less than the equivalent salary in Turkey for the first time, it appeared on Tuesday. Upon returning to work after ...

Deaths in ongoing wars have resulted from the mistakes of a handful of politicians. When will they ever learn? Alper Riza’s review of 2023 Reviews of the year are obviously ...

A Turkish court refused on Wednesday to release the newly elected opposition lawmaker Can Atalay despite a Constitutional Court ruling that his rights to security, liberty and to be elected ...

Turkey said on Monday its air force “neutralised” 26 Kurdish militants in strikes in Syria and northern Iraq in response to the killing of soldiers at the weekend, while authorities also ...

Twelve Turkish soldiers have been killed in the past two days in clashes with Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants in northern Iraq, the defence ministry said on Saturday. The military ...

This week’s shocking attack on a referee by a club president has thrust the entire culture of Turkish football into the spotlight, with the escalating issues of political influence ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday he would visit Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, if he was invited, amid a swirling media storm that such an invite had already been made. “...

The electricity cable connecting the north and Turkey will be ready within five years, the north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel said on Wednesday. Speaking to ‘parliament’ as discussions regarding ...

President Nikos Christodoulides held on Friday evening a telephone conversation with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres focusing on the Cyprus issue, the Turkish violations in the buffer zone as well ...

Two Greek Cypriot MPs were in the Turkish city of Antalya on Thursday to discuss the role of Cyprus in achieving stability and peace in the Eastern Mediterranean. The MPs, ...

Members of the House refugee committee will visit Brussels next week to urge EU officials to put pressure on Turkey to help find Cyprus’ missing persons. According to committee chair ...