Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on Sunday agreed to hold the next round of Russia-Ukraine negotiations in Turkey's Istanbul city, the Turkish presidency said. The two leaders had a phone conversation on Sunday and discussed the latest situation in...
Turkey is an important player, as it controls the Bosphorus strait, through which ships must pass to access the Black Sea – where Ukraine's major ports are located. Today Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visits Turkey for talks, and it is hoped an agreement can be bro...
Greece and Turkey in Conflict and Cooperation: From Europeanization to De-EuropeanizationThe book includes up to date accounts of the traditional areas of unresolved discord (Aegean, minorities, Cyprus, the Patriarchate), with emphasis on why they remain contentious until today, despite the thaw ...
Turkey can''t allow Iraq slips into sectarian war - Erdogan The report provided a timely overview of key environmental issues in the context of the recent conflict in Iraq. It also took into consideration the chronic environmental stress already in place from the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s,...
-- Lavrov met with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba in Turkey's southern province of Antalya, in the presence of Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. Kuleba noted the failure to make progress in declaring a ceasefire. Lavrov said that Russia wants to continue talks with Ukraine. ...
"I have to say that, by contrast, you know, there are forces that support the terrorists, and one of them is President Erdogan of Turkey, who calls Israel a terrorist state but actually supports the terrorist state of Hamas, has himself bombed Turkish villages inside Turkey itself, so we'...
People attend a rally in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Istanbul, Turkey October 28, 2023. Dilara Senkaya | Reuters Sanaa People hold Palestinian flags during a rally against Israeli air strikes on the Ga...
Not many people realize it was the U.S. that had triggered this crisis by earlier stationing PGM-19 Jupiter medium-range ballistic missiles in Izmir, Turkey, not far from the USSR's border. At the time, the latter's leader, Nikita Khrushchev, considered his country's sovereignty and survi...
As late as the early 2000s, such an invasion was derisively described as the "million-man swim," and would have almost certainly ended in a turkey shoot—especially if U.S. forces intervened. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below By the early 1990s, China had opened its doors to ...
Turkey's annual inflation surged to a two-decade high of 54.44 percent in February, and the Turkish lira has lost roughly 60 percent of its value against the U.S. dollar since 2021. The government has been trying to encourage citizens to bring the so-called "under the mattress" gold into...