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A day after Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos said he believed the two Greek soldiers being held in Turkey were taken on the orders of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Qatar has offered to mediate for their release. Qatar is a close...

Greece's defense minister has claimed the detention of two soldiers in Turkey in a border incident earlier this year was carried out on the direct orders of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Panos Kammenos told Greek radio on Wednesday the two...

A request from Nicosia asking the UN to renew its peacekeeping mandate on the divided island has sparked a response from Turkish Cypriot leader, Mustafa Akinci. It is reported that Akinci, who recently received a visit from newly re-elected Turkish...

A spokesman for Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan has described Greek PM Alexis Tsipras as being "well-intentioned" over the issue of the eight Turkish ex-soldiers seeking asylum in Greece. Ibrahim Kalin, speaking after the first cabinet meeting under Turkey's new executive...

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said that at his meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday -- scheduled on the sidelines of the NATO Summit meetings -- he raised the issue of Turkish escalation of tension in the...

The issue of two Greek soldiers being held in a Turkish jail will be raised directly by Alexis Tsipras when he meets Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday. Thursday's meeting will take place on the sidelines of the NATO summit being...

Turkish media are reporting that Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit northern Cyprus next week shortly after being inaugurated as president. His visit on Monday to occupied Cyprus will see him oversee the opening of a new huge mosque north of...

Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed victory in Sunday's presidential election despite opposition parties insisting all the votes have not yet been counted. Erdogan's speech was broadcast shortly before 11 p.m. local time (2000GMT). As he was speaking, Turkey's Supreme...

The polls are closing in Turkey's first ever joint parliamentary and presidential elections, with allegations of voter fraud and intimidation at some ballot boxes being reported. In the town of Suruc, close to the Syrian border, footage emerged purporting to...

Millions of Turkish voters will go to the polls in presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan fights for his political life. The elections are being held under Turkey's state of emergency laws which came in...