#Turkey

Turkish Cypriots celebrate the 40th anniversary of the unilateral declaration of independence (UDI) today, the move that set up the ‘Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus,’ which has existed ever since ...

Rejecting Turkey’s energy proposals is not enough. Cyprus should also be ready with counter-proposals that could contribute to reviving and speeding-up the Cyprus talks By Dr Charles Ellinas and ...

Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar slammed the European Union on Friday following the release of the EU-Turkey report on Wednesday. “The EU has become a prisoner of the Greek Cypriot ...

The EU report on the 2023 enlargement policy called on Turkey to reaffirm a commitment to UN-led settlement talks on the Cyprus issue, in line with the UN Security Council resolutions, ...

The trial of Kenan Ayaz will resume at Hamburg’s higher regional court in Germany on Tuesday, where he faces charges related to his membership of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday said that the appointment of the envoy of the UN Secretary General for the Cyprus problem is still ongoing. Christodoulides was commenting on the issue ...

Turkey is ready to take in cancer patients from Gaza’s Turkish-Palestinian Friendship hospital, which went out of service on Wednesday after running out of fuel, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca ...

Celebrations took place across the north on Sunday for the 100th anniversary of the proclamation of the Republic of Turkey. Political leaders, including Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar, his predecessor ...

The Syrian army shot down on Thursday eight drones over the Hama and Aleppo countryside in northwestern Syria that had killed three Syrians and injured two others, state media said, ...

The north’s ‘government’ on Tuesday blocked the creation of a ‘parliamentary’ investigation committee into the circumstances regarding the banning of 12 Turkish Cypriots from Turkey. Opposition politicians had put forward ...

Turkey on Sunday issued two Navtexes for military exercises that will affect Cyprus. The first covers the period from Monday to October 20 and the second from October 23 to 27. According to ...

Turkey, Romania, and Bulgaria will work together against the threat of floating mines in the Black Sea due to war between Russia and Ukraine, the Turkish Defence Ministry said on ...

Cyprus is ready to take in refugees from the Middle East due to the crisis in Israel and Gaza, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Wednesday, while adding that in ...

Case centres on a meeting held by Turkey to sway 2020 Turkish Cypriot elections The unprecedented criminal case that has raised eyebrows both locally and internationally, in which Turkish Cypriot journalist ...

The United States on Thursday shot down an armed Turkish drone that was operating near its troops in Syria, the Pentagon said, the first time Washington has brought down an ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday he expected concrete steps from allies in support of Turkey’s counter-terrorism fight after a weekend bomb attack in Ankara, for which ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres received two refusals from the Turkish Cypriot side and one ‘yes’ and one ‘no’ from Turkey to two proposals related to a joint meeting with the ...

European Parliament (EP) President Roberta Metsola on Saturday sent a message to Famagustians that the EP’s position on the reunification of Cyprus remained unwavering. According to an announcement by ...

The Cyprus issue was one of the topics discussed on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York by the foreign ministers of Germany and Turkey. In a ...

A Turkish drone strike in northern Iraq on Sunday killed three fighters from the Sinjar Resistance Units (YBS), a militia affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Iraqi security sources ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday condemnation from Turkey and the Turkish Cypriot ‘government’ of the EU parliament report was “nothing new,” while he said the government holds “particularly dear” ...

The militaries of the north and Turkey are carrying out joint exercises this week. The exercises, which have been given the official name “Martyr Captain Cengiz Topel Mediterranean storm exercise-23”, ...

Unless the Turkish government “drastically changes course”, Turkey’s EU accession process cannot resume, the European Parliament said on Wednesday, passing the progress report for the country. The report was ...

The Left in the European Parliament, a left-wing political group of the European Parliament established in 1995, condemned Ankara on Tuesday for denying entry to Turkish Cypriots, under the “vague pretext ...