Ankara

Ankara and Athens have initiated efforts to build a new bridge between Turkey and Greece to ease traffic, Anatolia news agency reported quoting Turkish Deputy Minister of Customs and Trade, Fatih Metin. Metin examined the border gate of Ipsala on...

An alleged plot against Fener Greek Orthodox Patriarchate Bartholomew is being investigated by an Ankara public prosecutor, private broadcaster NTV reported today. As reported in Hurriyet Daily News, the investigation was launched after a letter was sent from the Central...

Cyprus' hopes of using potential gas reserves as a bargaining chip to trigger an international bailout is hitting an obstacle in Ankara as Turkish officials said they may challenge any move to do so, the news agency Reuters reported. The...

Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister Omer Celik met with Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris, in Ankara and thanked him for his sensitivity over the protection of Turkish and Ottoman artifacts in Thessaloniki. Boutaris told Turkish reporters about the construction of...

Media reports in Turkey have suggested that the suicide bomber who blew himself up outside the United States Embassy in Ankara on Feb. 1 had crossed into the country from Greece. The bomber, identified as 40-year-old leftist militant Ecevit Sanli,...