Turkey

Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Matthew Palmer expressed on Wednesday Washington's deep concern over Turkey's actions in the Eastern Mediterranean, stressing that US diplomacy has made its position clear in Ankara. At a teleconference with...

Turkey has reiterated its demands for the demilitarization of sixteen of Greece's Aegean islands, with the dispute just one aspect of a wider conflict concerning national sovereignty and rights within the region. In an interview with BBC News from Libya,...

The professional crew behind the documentary title "The Beneath," a film showing what lies underneath the Byzantine cathedral of Hagia Sophia, recently returned to the monument in order to continue its investigations of the building's subterranean ruins. According to the...

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, the highest cleric in the Russian Orthodox Church, recently spoke out against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's plans to convert Hagia Sophia into a mosque, calling it a threat to Christianity. In an official statement, which...

The Turkish Council of State - the country's highest administrative body - delayed a decision on whether the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople can be converted into a mosque on Thursday. After a hearing lasting just 17 minutes, the body said...

The US has spoken out against the Turkish government for trying to convert Hagia Sophia into a mosque, while urging the country to continue to maintain the site as a museum. In a statement released on Wednesday, July 1, by...

Ambassador Sam Brownback, the US Ambassador of Religious Freedom, urged Turkey last week to abandon plans to reconvert the sixth century monument of Hagia Sophia into a mosque. “The Hagia Sophia holds enormous spiritual & cultural significance to billions of...

Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) has sent a letter to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo demanding action regarding Turkey’s recent acts of aggression in the Mediterranean. In the letter, dated June 22, the ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee,...

Turkey is the #1 recipient of German arms exports for the second year running, according to a classified document revealed by the German Press Agency (DPA) on Tuesday. According to the document, Turkey received 344.6 million euros worth of weapons...

Dr. Anthony J. Limberakis, National Commander of the Order of Saint Andrew the Apostle, Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate sent a letter to President Donald Trump asking him to help prevent Hagia Sophia from being turned into a mosque. In...