Removing Turkey from the US-led F-35 stealth fighter jet programme will be bad for NATO, its Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said. The NATO chief made the comments on Wednesday, 17 July, the same day that the White House announced that Turkey’s continued involvement with the F-35 had been...
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) President Mustafa Akıncı has expressed his “regret” and “dismay” after Greek Cypriot political party leaders rejected his offer to work together to exploit potential offshore energy resources by claiming that a solution to the Cyprus problem must come first...
A Turkish diplomat has been shot dead in the Iraqi Kurdish city of Erbil, Turkey's foreign ministry has said. In a brief statement, issued this afternoon, the ministry confirmed the death and called on the Iraqi authorities to “to find the perpetrators of the attack swiftly”: “This afternoon (...
Turkey has slammed the Washington Post newspaper after it published an article by a PKK terrorist leader with a $4 million reward on his head. Turkish Foreign Affairs Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu lashed out at the publication after it ran an opinion piece in the name of Cemil Bayik entitled “Now is...
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) President Mustafa Akıncı has called on the ‘Greek Cypriot administration of South Cyprus’ to take action after a coach picking up a group of tourists from Larnaca airport was reportedly targeted in a “racially motivated attack”. Mr Akıncı raised the issu...
Turkey has been named as one of the best places in the world for foreigners to relocate to, according to a new study. It came seventh overall in a league table featuring 33 countries and territories compiled by the HSBC banking group, up from 22ndon last year’s report. The findings of this yea...
An MP from the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) was among a delegation that called for an end to the embargoes on Turkish Cypriot footballers at world governing body FIFA’s 69th Congress in Paris. National Unity Party MP Oğuzhan Hasipoğlu was part of a four-man group that travelled to t...
A bill calling on the American government to lift a decades-old arms embargo on the Greek Cypriot-controlled Republic of Cyprus has passed a legislative hurdle – but only after an amendment was added making such a move conditional on denying the Russian navy access to the island’s ports. The Sena...
Norman Stone, the former Professor of Modern History at Oxford and European History at Bilkent, has died aged 78. The Scottish historian and multi-linguist, who spoke 12 languages, was a former advisor to Margaret Thatcher, often attracting controversy with his outspoken views, not least in rejectin...
A Turkish citizen has flown into the United States to take up his position as the new religious leader of over a million Greek Orthodox Christians. Istanbul-born Elpidophoros Lambriniadis will be enthroned as the Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America on Saturday, June 22, at a c...
