Turkey

The island of Crete illustrates how Turkey is attempting to curtail the exercise of Greece’s sovereign rights regarding the exclusive economic zone (EEZ). By Dr. Stathis Palassis The island of Crete is situated between the Aegean and Libyan Seas. It has...

The behavior of Turkey toward Greece has changed radically since the deadly earthquakes and Athens has an obligation to respond in a positive way, Greek foreign minister Nikos Dendias said. Speaking to Proto Thema, Dendias noted that since his visit...

The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was grilled on Washington's support for Turkey by Bob Menendez at a Senate hearing on Wednesday. The Chairman of the Committee on International Relations of the Senate, a staunch critic of Erdogan's Turkey,...

Greece is the NATO country with the highest defense spending as a percentage of GDP among all allies, including the US, data released on Tuesday show. According to NATO's Annual Report for 2022 presented in Brussels by Secretary General Jens...

President Tayyip Erdogan officially set Turkey’s parliamentary and presidential elections for May 14, a month ahead of schedule, signing the decision in a ceremony shown live on television on Friday. “Our nation will go to the polls to elect its...

Turkey is releasing the jailed father of a train driver killed in the Greek rail disaster so that he can attend his son's funeral. According to sources, this was the topic of a discussion on the phone between Foreign Minister...

Turkey's opposition picked Kemal Kilicdaroglu Monday as its common candidate to challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey’s presidential elections in May. The elections are Erdogan’s toughest during his 20-year rule and come amid economic turmoil and criticism of the...

Players of the football club Trabzonspor in Turkey wore shirts bearing a message of solidarity with Greece after the train disaster that claimed the lives of at least 57 people. A message displayed by the Turkish and Greek flags said...

Twenty-one days after the devasting earthquake in Turkey, a horse was found alive in the rubble of a building in the city of Adiyaman. A clip showing volunteers teaming up to rescue the animal was shared on Twitter by Tansu...

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook southern Turkey on Monday — three weeks after a catastrophic tremor devastated the region — causing some already damaged buildings to collapse and killing at least one person. The country's disaster management agency, AFAD, said...