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The opening of a Turkish port to commercial ships under the Cyprus flag has been proposed to Ankara, according to a report in Greek newspaper TA NEA on Saturday.“From the Cypriot side, there is ...
Benedict XVI stood, shoeless, side by side with the Mufti of Istanbul beneath the cavernous great dome of onetime Constantinople's famed Blue Mosque, palms upraised in the traditional Muslim ...
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan just won't take no for an answer. In 2002 he and his Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power promising to get Turkey into the ...
From NATO to EU membership, from immigration to ties with Russia, breaking Europe's stalemate with Turkey may be much easier said than done. We delve into the issues at stake with two MEPs ...
The "half full" side has something concrete to point to. On Monday, Turkey successfully opened and closed the first chapter of its negotiations with the EU. Stripped of EU jargon, it means Turkey has ...
Neither Europe nor Turkey can "win." But neither side can afford to let go. Hugh Pope is author, most recently, of "Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World" (Overlook Duckworth, 2005).
ANKARA – The European Commission’s annual report on Turkey’s long-stalled European Union membership bid was “unjust and biased”, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said.
The Turkey-US trade spat has led to EU leaders backing Turkey against the US administration's policies. This not only shows the extent of economic interdependence between Europe and Turkey, but also ...
BRUSSELS: Volodymyr Zelensky thanked EU leaders Thursday for standing by Ukraine's side, as the bloc kicked off crisis talks on confronting US President Donald Trump's pivot away from Kyiv and its ...
Tatar also said that large sums of money flowing to the north in the form of Greek Cypriot and foreign investments “inevitably end up being used as means of propaganda”.
Turkey’s top diplomat has reaffirmed his country's resolve to join the European Union and urged the 27-member bloc to take courageous steps to advance its bid ...
When figures in the EU talk about the new members that might join the union by 2030, there is no mention of Turkey. It is a glaring omission noticed by Ankara.