Turkey

Reports on Friday affirm that Turkey is preparing legislation that would grant President Recep Tayyip Erdogan authority to declare an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) extending up to 200 nautical miles from ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday called on Turkic states to strengthen their ties with the Turkish Cypriots as he attended an informal Organisation of Turkic States summit in ...

Turkey lifted some customs restrictions on Armenia on Wednesday, paving the way for direct trade links between the two countries in a further sign of normalising ties after over 30 years ...

Turkish opposition party CHP leader Ozgur Ozel on Tuesday called on Turkic states to recognise northern Cyprus as an independent country, while also lamenting the fact that Syrian President Ahmed ...

The Cyprus issue “blocked” Turkey’s journey toward membership of the European Union, the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday. “Recently, some damaging debates regarding Turkey’s ...

Turkey’s ruling AK Party’s spokesman Omer Celik on Tuesday night lambasted the “shameful alliance” formed between Greek Cypriots and Israel, while also criticising Greece for allowing “third parties” ...

The owner of a block of flats which collapsed, killing 96 people inside, and who then attempted to flee to Cyprus to start a new life in the hours after the ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Sunday offered terse words for both the Greek Cypriot side and Israel for “forming an alliance against Muslim countries” during his closing address at ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on Thursday, having travelled to Turkey to attend this weekend’s Antalya diplomacy forum. The meeting is ...

A 14-year-old student who shot at least nine people dead, including eight of his fellow pupils, at a school in southeastern Turkey had used an image referencing a 2014 U.S. ...

A 14-year-old student shot at least nine people dead including eight of his fellow pupils and wounded 13 others at a middle school in southeastern Turkey on Wednesday, officials said, in ...

A teenager opened fire at a high school in Turkey’s southeastern province of Sanliurfa on Tuesday, wounding at least 16 people, including students and teachers, before killing himself, Governor Hasan ...

British Cypriot singer Isin Karaca said she was denied entry to Greece and deported from Athens airport after having attempted to go on holiday to the country. She posted a ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel and Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz on Thursday evening put pen to paper on the latest annual financial protocol which sets out the coming ...

One attacker was killed and two others were wounded in an extended gun battle with police outside the tower building housing the Israeli consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday. Footage showed ...

Jailed Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on Saturday evening moved to defend himself over accusations that he had erected a statue of the Republic of Cyprus’ founding president Archbishop Makarios III ...

The Turkish government is to provide 25 billion TL (€486m) worth of funds to northern Cyprus as part of the latest annual financial protocol it is to sign with the Turkish ...

Italy’s coast guard recovered the bodies of 19 migrants and rescued 58 survivors from a boat that broke down while trying to cross to Europe from Libya, rescue officials and migrant ...

A ballistic missile launched from Iran entered Turkish airspace before being shot down by NATO air and missile defences deployed in the eastern Mediterranean, Turkey’s defence ministry said on ...

A proposal to exclude Turkey from participating in defence-related aspects of the European Union’s Horizon Europe 2028–2034 programme was approved on Tuesday by the European Parliament’s committee on defence ...

Turkey has issued a new notice to airmen (Notam) regarding possible military activities in the airspace above and surrounding the north’s Ercan (Tymbou) airport, following a back-and-forth of Notams ...

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday invoked Cyprus while issuing a warning that Turkey would respond to any perceived threats, declaring that anyone seeking to test the country’s ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that the war in Iran must be stopped before the whole Middle East region is “thrown into the fire”, adding that diplomacy must ...

The Turkish government is planning to deploy surface-to-air missiles to Cyprus, with the conflict in the Middle East ongoing, according to reports on Wednesday. Turkish newspaper Sabah reported that Turkish-made ...