Recep Tayyip Erdogan

July and August in Cyprus always bring a volley of celebrations for some; commiserations and condemnations for others! This has been going on for the past forty years with little chance of changing the status quo. As time goes by,...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew visited Sumela Monastery in Turkey for the fifth consecutive year and officiated the Divine Liturgy held in the historic monastery. Hundreds of worshipers attended the liturgy for the Dormition of Virgin Mary in an atmosphere of piety and...

"Let's see if we can fill up the Blue Mosque first, before Hagia Sophia," stated the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, giving a diplomatic answer to those who want to see the conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque. Erdogan attended...

The recent prayers of Islamists in front of Hagia Sophia, as regards to turning the monument into a mosque, once again provoked anger expressed in the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet, against the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The journalist, Nuray Mert,...

Patriarch Bartholomew I, spiritual leader of 250 million Orthodox Christians, is hoping a meeting with Pope Francis in Jerusalem this month will help bring the churches together after being apart for nearly a milennia. In an interview with The Associated...

According to Turkish media, on May 29 the country’s Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan will attend a symbolic prayer in the orthodox temple of Hagia Sophia, in light of the anniversary of the seige of Constantinople by the Ottomans. The...

Christians celebrated Easter with church masses in several cities across Turkey on April 20. In the predawn hours of Sunday, many worshipers gathered outside the Greek Patriarchate in the Fener district of İstanbul, holding a candlelight vigil and praying until...

Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades will succeed in his burning desire to reunify the island, whose northern third is still occupied by a standing Turkish army and unlawful invaders, right about the time Greece gets back Istanbul, which it still...

Work has begun on the most complex phase of the world’s longest undersea water pipeline, a project to bring freshwater from Turkey beneath the Mediterranean to the occupied part of Cyprus that proponents say may help reunite the island. The...

Turkish EU Minister Egemen Bağış hosted religious leaders and prominent figures from minority communities at a dinner, the Hurriyet Daily News reports. Speaking at the event, Bağış praised Turkey’s development in dealing with the problems of minorities and said issues...