Tag: Cyprus
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday ruled out discussing a federal system to reunify Cyprus, insisting that a two-state accord is the only solution for the ethnically-split island. In an ...
Right-wing nationalist Ersin Tatar, backed by Ankara, scored a surprise victory in a run-off presidential election Sunday in breakaway northern Cyprus, official results showed. Tatar, who advocates a two-state solution on the divided island, won ...
Behold the mighty European Union, second only to the U.S. in economic heft. But also witness what a minnow it is in world diplomacy. Is it any wonder the world’s hard-nosed autocrats and nationalists, practitioners of ...
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For Emmanuel Macron, the moment of truth is approaching at a rate of knots. The French president has again fired off rhetorical broadsides at his Turkish counterpart over the crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean. But ...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey called on European Union countries Friday to abandon a policy of “blindly” taking the side of EU members Greece and Cyprus in a tense standoff over energy exploration rights in ...
Sep 8, 2020 ISTANBUL — Russia is offering to mediate with Turkey in a dispute over energy exploration in the eastern Mediterranean Sea after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan questioned the European Union’s sincerity on resolving ...
Turkey on Wednesday called on the US to review its decision to partially lift an arms embargo imposed on Cyprus in the late 1980s. The Turkish Foreign Ministry criticized Washington’s move as one that would ...
Turkey has threatened to invade Greek islands since at least 2018, and a recent Egyptian-Greek maritime deal appears to have escalated Turkey’s regional aggression. On August 12, Greece’s Prime Minister warned about the possibility of ...
Fearing a sharp decline in his approval rating, especially in view of a looming economic crisis, Turkey’s Islamist strongman, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, appears to be chasing new wars with real or imaginary enemies. Election ...
The Tel Aviv Moshe Dayan Institute published Dec. 7 an exceptional article, titled “Israel is Turkey’s Neighbor Across the Sea: Delimitation of the Maritime Jurisdiction Areas between Turkey and Israel.” The article appeared in the institute’s publication ...