Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu was arrested on Wednesday morning as part of an investigation into alleged corruption and links to terrorism, according to media reports.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that Turkey should not be excluded from plans for a European security framework, adding that his country’s defense industry should also be included in EU procurements. His statements during a teleconference of non-EU member states, which included the heads of the European Union’s institutional bodies as well […]
A top US lobbyist this week touched on what he called Turkey’s increasingly problematic stance towards American and Western interests, in testimony before the US House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe. In his detailed statement, Jonathan Schanzer, the executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), a conservative think tank, spoke to Committee […]
Initial 8.5-kilometer fence on Turkish side of the border in the Thrace province announced by Edirne governor
In a conversation with TO BHMA International edition, Harvard constitutional law professor Nicholas Stephanopoulos warns that Trump’s push for total control over the executive branch risks dismantling the modern American administrative state
At the current geopolitical juncture, US-Turkey relations are an inordinately higher priority than those with Greece, primarily because of the need for cooperation in Syria, in which Ankara has sweeping influence and sway over the current “interim government”
In a wide-ranging interview, the former diplomat says that the referendum on Brexit was a very bad idea, as the result has harmed Britain economically and reduced its global influence
On January 31, 1996, Greece and Turkey came close to war over two uninhabited islets in the eastern Aegean. The incident, known as the Imia crisis, remains a landmark in often tense relations
A Turkish F-16 violated Greek airspace near Rhodes on the eve of the Imia crisis anniversary, the first such incident in nearly two years.
“Eskişehir does not only border its neighboring provinces. If one border of Eskişehir is Thessaloniki, the other border is Crimea," Erdogan said
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced the national mourning in a statement on social media platform X, expressing solidarity with the families of the victims of the ski resort fire
Speaking at a book launch on Monday evening, Karamanlis, a former premier between 2004-2007, also repeated his view that negotiations with Turkey are not “a purpose unto itself”
As an event, the championship hosts thousands of spectators each year and features approximately 120 elaborately decorated camel contestants.
Bahçeli is the head of the ultra-nationalist and extremist MHP party and an Erdogan government coalition partner
'Blue Homeland' exercise, a reference to Turkey’s expressed expansionist and revisionist policies, involves 20,000 military personnel, 87 warships, seven submarines, seven unmanned naval vehicles, 31 aircraft, and is scheduled to be completed by Jan. 16.
Turkey says the 'Blue Homeland 2025' exercise will take place from January 7-16, and aims to enhance the operational preparedness of its naval forces in the Black Sea, Aegean, and Mediterranean.
Ilhan Uzgel, vice-president of the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), explains Ankara's objectives in the country.
"This is a transitional situation in Syria that does not legitimize any such agreement. We are monitoring it.," the Greek ministry sources said
Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar announced on Monday that a delegation from the Ministry of Energy is expected to visit Syria
The explosion occurred at a factory in northwest Turkey and officials said there is currently no evidence of sabatoge.