Ten days before the start of exploratory talks between Greece and Turkey, and hours after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan indirectly invited Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for a meeting, Ankara issued…
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan appeared positive today about meeting with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in the context of the bilateral dialogue that Greece and Turkey are starting. Erdoğan said as…
At least 18,000 to 20,000 Turkish opposition members and citizens arrived in Greece in the last four years and 9,000 of them have sought political asylum. Most live in areas of downtown…
Late on Wednesday night, 13 people from Turkey landed in Rhodes and stated that they were persecuted by the regime of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and asked for political asylum, Rodiaki reported. The…
Unanswered questions about Turkey’s relationship with ISIS In a recent update about ISIS’ status in Syria, The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights warned of “strong comeback” for the terrorist group in the…
Risk of ignition over the Imia islets in the eastern Aegean – How the regime of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will try to take advantage of political instability in the U.S.…
The agreement for the normalization of relations between Qatar and the other Sunni monarchies in the Gulf was welcomed by the international community. The rift with Qatar caused great concern about the…
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara at the invitation of the latter, expressing his deep concern over the Greek-Albanian agreement on referring the border…
The mini-war with Turkey is just around the corner if “Greece does not leave aside its begging syndrome”, as Professor George Margaritis noted on SLPress a few months ago. At the same…
Dystopian 2020 was a year of revelation for the Greek political system and the domestic elites since they were surprised to discover the unacknowledged hostility of Germany towards Greece, as I will…
The European Union plans to spend hundreds of millions of euros over the next year helping refugees living in Turkey, most of them people who fled the war in Syria, the Associated…
A new NAVTEX was issued by Turkey’s authorities for research lasting 6 months (until June 2021), but which delimits areas that are clear, within the Turkish territorial waters. However, officials from the…
I have noticed the view of Turkey and its Islamist leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan by some analysts have taken a major step back. In the past, they have passionately argued that “we…
One of Turkey’s most infamous advisors to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has demanded that the Greek Consul General in Smyrna (Σμύρνα, Turkish: İzmir) be arrested. Mesut Hakkı Caşın, a member of the…
The 1974 Turkish invasion of the Republic of Cyprus resulted in the occupation of 36% of the small East Mediterranean island. Additionally 200,000 Greek Cypriots were expelled from Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus. In…
A reversal of Turkey’s revisionist strategy in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East is underway with U.S. sanctions imposed on the Turkish defense industry due its purchase of the Russian-made S-400…
Mesut Hakkı Caşın, a top advisor to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said on Saturday that American troops would be dealt with in a similar way the Turks did to Greeks in…
India and Cyprus have decided to co-operate in various fields, including defense, politics, economic, consular and cultural ties, the Indian Foreign Ministry said. The announcement stated that a fifth round of consultations…
The OSCE Mink Group Co-Chairs are visiting Yerevan and Baku this weekend to discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement with the political leadership of Armenia and Azerbaijan. It was announced by Assistant Secretary…
The United States is ready to impose sanctions under the CAATSA Act against Turkey for purchasing the Russian-made S-400 missile defense system, Reuters cited four sources, including two US officials, as saying.…