US State Department

The United States is finally sanctioning Turkey over the fellow NATO country's purchase of the S-400 missile system from Russia in 2019, according to a statement released by the US State Department on Monday afternoon. In the document, Secretary of...

According to an announcement issued on Wednesday by the US Department of State, Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs R. Clarke Cooper will travel to Greece, Cyprus and Bulgaria beginning on October 14, 2020, to meet with US...

Greece and the United States reaffirmed their excellent bilateral relations and mutual desire to further deepen cooperation in a series of areas on Monday, in a meeting of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Greek Foreign Minister Dendias. The areas...

The U.S. State Department urged Tukey to remove the drilling ship Yavuz from Cyprus' territorial waters, calling Ankara's activities "unlawful," the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) reports. The United States considers the activities of the Turkish drillship Yavuz off the coast of...

Turkey on Wednesday rejected official statements from Greece and the European Union that Turkish drilling for gas and oil off Cyprus was illegitimate, adding that the EU could not be an impartial mediator on the Cyprus problem, Reuters reports. The...

The United States continues to fully support the Cypriot-led process facilitated by the UN Secretary-General’s Good Offices Mission, a State Department Spokesperson has said. However, when asked to comment on press reports that Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs,...

The American Hellenic Institute (AHI) has raised several policy issues including Cyprus in a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry in view of his visit to Cyprus and Greece in December. In his November 19, 2015 letter on Cyprus, AHI President...