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Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has described the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia as "our brothers" and insisted Ankara would always stand by Skopje. FYROM media reported Erdogan's comments made at a conference of immigrants from Balkan countries to Turkey....

Greek judges on Friday refused to extradite a suspect wanted on terrorism charges to Turkey. Mehmet Dogan, 60, was one of eight Turkish citizens detained in December shortly before an historic state visit by Turkey's leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The court...

A senior adviser to Turkey's leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said any foreign political or military official who steps onto the disputed Aegean islet of Imia will have their arms and legs broken. In an implicit threat to Greek officials...

Turkey's leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has targeted the country's main opposition party for its legacy of "giving away" Aegean islands in 1923. In a speech on Saturday, the Turkish president took a swipe at Kemal Kilicdaroglu, head of the secular...

The author, Andreas C Chrysafis, is a U.K.-published writer of five books and over 400 press articles. His latest books “Aphrodite’s Sacred Virgins” and “Andreas C Chrysafis ART –Volume 1”. The recent attempt to lynch a group of journalists and...

  Turkish media on Friday reported that the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew I, has backed Turkey’s military action in northern Syria. In a Hurriyet newspaper report, the senior clergyman apparently wrote to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan...

Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan was accused of incitement on Monday, after a mob in northern Cyprus ransacked the offices of a newspaper critical of Ankara's current military offensive in Syria. A flag-waving crowd attacked the first-floor offices of Afrika...

Turkey has rebuffed any suggestion of an associate membership of the European Union, as its EU minister on Friday warned a 2016 migrant deal with the bloc was under threat. Speaking to Reuters in London, Omer Celik said anything short...

  Greece's government on Thursday came in for stinging criticism from a German media outlet for its handling of the case of eight Turkish ex-servicemen wanted by Ankara for their alleged role in the 2016 coup attempt. Spiegel Online carried a...

Turkey on Thursday said it views new Greek legislation which changes the way Islamic law is implemented among the country’s Muslim minority with “concern”. In a statement Turkey's foreign ministry warned Athens against infringing upon the prerogatives of elected Muslim...