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  Turkey's president issued a thinly-veiled threat against Greece and Cyprus on Tuesday amid a series of incidents in the Aegean and Mediterranean seas. Recep Tayyip Erdogan was addressing lawmakers from his ruling party in Ankara when he said: "Opportunistic attempts...

Former NATO Commander James Stavridis has told Greek Reporter in an exclusive interview that the Aegean islets of Imia, whose sovereignty is disputed by Turkey, "are Greek and they will remain Greek forever". Speaking on the sidelines of the Leadership...

Turkish state media reported on Wednesday that Ankara submitted final files to the EU to obtain visa-free travel for Turkish citizens to the Schengen zone, including Greece. The official Anadolu news agency in Ankara reported that Turkish EU ambassador, Faruk...

  A Greek court on Tuesday postponed a ruling on extraditing a terror suspect -- one of a group of nine detained late last year -- to Turkey. Forty-eight-year-old Naci Ozpolat was one of nine Turkish citizens arrested in December shortly...

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...