Turkey

Turkish President Recep Tayipp Erdogan responded angrily on Friday to the so-called manifesto of the New Zealand killer, which contained hateful anti-Islamic language. The pages-long rant by white supremacist Brenton Tarrant, 28, reveals an obsession with historical figures who fought...

The European Parliament's plenary session approved on Wednesday a proposal by its Foreign Affairs Committee to suspend all accession negotiations with Turkey. European lawmakers passed the proposal by 370 votes in favor, 109 against and 143 abstentions, after citing violations against...

Speaking with Turkey’s Kanal 24 and TV-360 TV stations on Thursday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed that his country's latest military exercises were not directed against Greece. Erdogan said that ''the Greeks appeared to be frightened of'' the country’s...

Volkan Bozkir, the chairman of the Turkish Parliament's foreign affairs committee, was quoted by Turkey's Milliyet newspaper on Thursday as saying that Turkey will go ahead with the controversial purchase of a Russian missile system. If true, the buying of the...

Greek Orthodox faithful from the island of Chios traveled to the Turkish port of Cesme (Krini), for a rare liturgy held at Saint Charalambos church on Sunday. Sunday was the feast day of the hieromartyr Saint Charalambos, who was...

Turkey’s population hit 82 million as of the end of 2018, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) said on Friday. Official figures revealed that the population residing in Turkey increased by 1,193,357 people year-on-year. The “male population was 41,139,980 people and female...

Turkish authorities have given the go-ahead for the construction of the first Orthodox church in Istanbul since 1923, the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported on Wednesday. Bulent Kerimoglu, the mayor of Istanbul’s Bakirkoy municipality, told reporters on Jan. 8 that the...

A Turkish couple used a donkey and wheelbarrows to carry their groceries this week as a protest against the newly-introduced nationwide law instituting charges for plastic bags in Turkey. The two people used this unique and picturesque means to express...

A video of a ballerina doing a split inside Istanbul’s historic Hagia Sophia Museum on Saturday has caused widespread outrage in nationalist and Islamist circles in Turkey. Turkish newspapers, as well as social media commentators, described the incident as a...

Dozens of Orthodox men dove into Istanbul’s cold waters to retrieve a cross to mark the baptism of Jesus Christ. On Sunday, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I led worshipers in the celebration of the Epiphany, throwing a blessed wooden cross into...