A Turkish diplomat has been shot dead in the Iraqi Kurdish city of Erbil, Turkey’s foreign ministry has said. In a brief statement, issued this afternoon, the ministry confirmed the death and called on the Iraqi authorities to “to find the perpetrators of the attack swiftly”: “This afternoon (17 July 2019), an official of our […]
Turkey has slammed the Washington Post newspaper after it published an article by a PKK terrorist leader with a $4 million reward on his head. Turkish Foreign Affairs Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu lashed out at the publication after it ran an opinion piece in the name of Cemil Bayik entitled “Now is the moment for peace […]
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) President Mustafa Akıncı has called on the ‘Greek Cypriot administration of South Cyprus’ to take action after a coach picking up a group of tourists from Larnaca airport was reportedly targeted in a “racially motivated attack”. Mr Akıncı raised the issue with the UN’s top official in Cyprus, Elizabeth […]
Turkey has been named as one of the best places in the world for foreigners to relocate to, according to a new study. It came seventh overall in a league table featuring 33 countries and territories compiled by the HSBC banking group, up from 22ndon last year’s report. The findings of this year’s “Expat Explorer […]
An MP from the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) was among a delegation that called for an end to the embargoes on Turkish Cypriot footballers at world governing body FIFA’s 69th Congress in Paris. National Unity Party MP Oğuzhan Hasipoğlu was part of a four-man group that travelled to the French capital last month […]
A bill calling on the American government to lift a decades-old arms embargo on the Greek Cypriot-controlled Republic of Cyprus has passed a legislative hurdle – but only after an amendment was added making such a move conditional on denying the Russian navy access to the island’s ports. The Senate’s Committee on Foreign Relations voted […]
Norman Stone, the former Professor of Modern History at Oxford and European History at Bilkent, has died aged 78. The Scottish historian and multi-linguist, who spoke 12 languages, was a former advisor to Margaret Thatcher, often attracting controversy with his outspoken views, not least in rejecting claims of an “Armenian Genocide” in Ottoman Turkey. He […]
A Turkish citizen has flown into the United States to take up his position as the new religious leader of over a million Greek Orthodox Christians. Istanbul-born Elpidophoros Lambriniadis will be enthroned as the Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America on Saturday, June 22, at a ceremony in Manhattan, New York, according to […]
An underground train station in Frankfurt, Germany, has been named after a Turkish teenager who lost his life trying to help a person who had fallen onto the tracks. The Ostendstraße stop on the city’s S-Bahn underground system will now also be known as Alptuğ-Sözen-Station, according to German media reports. New signs in memory of […]
Leading politicians in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) have hailed an exchange of murder suspects with the Greek Cypriot South. United Nations peacekeepers, acting as go-betweens, handed over Pakistani citizen Muhammad Salman to TRNC police, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Kudret Özersay (pictured above, right) announced on Thursday, 13 June. […]
