Turkey

Τhe Congressional Caucus on Hellenic Issues and Congressional Hellenic-Israel Alliance, wrote to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo earlier in the week to report on the Administration’s monitoring of violations by Turkey of the sovereign territory of Greece and Cyprus’...

The US State Department voiced its strong objection on Tuesday over Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's decision to host a delegation from the Palestinian militant group Hamas last week. In a statement, State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus denounced the meeting...

Elpidophoros, the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of America, deplored Friday's decision by Turkish authorities to re-convert the Byzantine-era Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Savior in Chora back into a mosque. The Archbishop wrote on Twitter: "After the tragic transgression with...

According to a new report by Reuters, Turkish President Erdogan claimed on Friday that his country's experts have discovered the largest gas deposit that the country had ever located in the Black Sea. In an address to the nation, the...

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a presidential decree on Friday turning the historic Holy Saviour in Chora, a medieval Byzantine church in western Constantinople that was a museum, into a mosque. The move follows the July decision to convert...

Twenty-five prominent academics, authors and politicians called on the British government to express its "clear support" for Greece and Cyprus over the increased tensions in the eastern Mediterranean caused by Turkey's refusal to accept the UN Convention on the...

A spokesman for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Ibrahim Kalin spoke out against Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, over past comments made against his boss. On Sunday, August 16, Kalin took to Twitter in order to express his criticism of...

Senior Senators and a prominent Jewish American group have urged US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to demand that Turkey stops its provocations against Greece and Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean. The American Jewish Committee, one of the oldest Jewish...

Responding to Thursday's signing of a maritime agreement between Greece and Egypt delineating the EEZ's of each nation, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is reported to have told German Chancellor Angela Merkel that his nation would again recommence drilling...

UN human rights experts explained on Friday, July 31, that Turkey's conversion of the significant World Heritage Site "could reflect a supremacist view of history and culture." In an officially released statement, UN Special Rapporteur Karima Bennoune, who works in...