Turkey

Turkish lawmaker Mevlut Cavusoglu was re-elected on Monday (January 24th) as president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). Thus, Cavusoglu, a member of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party, will head the organisation for another year.

Greece’s and Bulgaria’s plan to build a fence along the Turkish border is widely perceived as EU’s hidden intention to build a wall to mark its borders. Chairman of Turkish Center for International Relations and Strategic Analysis, Sinan Ogan, says Greece’s and Bulgaria’s intention to build a fence along the …

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will pay an official visit to Kyrgyzstan at the beginning of February to discuss bilateral economic cooperation. A business forum Turkey-Kyrgyzstan will be held during the visit.

Turkey and Greece will hold a new round of exploratory talks, Turkey’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced. The 49th round of exploratory talks between the two countries will take place in Ankara on Wednesday.

The European Union (EU) is aiming at preventing illegal immigration passage through the land border of Turkey and Greece, with a technical delegation from EU Commission examining the border between Turkey and Greece on Friday. Stefano Manservisi, the commission’s director-general for home affairs, told local media that he had held …

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Saturday (January 15th) that all concerned parties should encourage Turkish and Greek Cypriots in their efforts to find a settlement to the long-standing Cypriot issue. His remarks came a few days after Angela Merkel visited Cyprus and criticised the Turkish Cypriots for lack of …

Cyprus President Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu met on Wednesday (January 12th) to discuss governance and power-sharing as part of ongoing talks to reunify the island. “Both sides put

Turkish Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul has met his Bulgarian counterpart Anyu Angelov in Ankara. Before meeting his Bulgarian counterpart Gonul said that after Bulgaria’s NATO accession

A recent public opinion poll shows that 43% of Turkish citizens surveyed view the United States as the biggest threat the country. Israel was viewed by 23.7% as the biggest threat, while traditional ‘enemy’ Greece was viewed as the biggest threat by only 2.3% (Iran 3%, Iraq 2.1%, Russia 1.7%). …

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has arrived in Cyprus on the second leg of her two-day Mediterranean tour. After meeting with Cypriot President Dimitris Christofias, Merkel said it was up to Turkey to put more effort