Turkey

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a presidential decree on Friday turning the historic Holy Saviour in Chora, a medieval Byzantine church in western Constantinople that was a museum, into a mosque. The move follows the July decision to convert...

Twenty-five prominent academics, authors and politicians called on the British government to express its "clear support" for Greece and Cyprus over the increased tensions in the eastern Mediterranean caused by Turkey's refusal to accept the UN Convention on the...

A spokesman for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Ibrahim Kalin spoke out against Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, over past comments made against his boss. On Sunday, August 16, Kalin took to Twitter in order to express his criticism of...

Senior Senators and a prominent Jewish American group have urged US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to demand that Turkey stops its provocations against Greece and Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean. The American Jewish Committee, one of the oldest Jewish...

Responding to Thursday's signing of a maritime agreement between Greece and Egypt delineating the EEZ's of each nation, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is reported to have told German Chancellor Angela Merkel that his nation would again recommence drilling...

UN human rights experts explained on Friday, July 31, that Turkey's conversion of the significant World Heritage Site "could reflect a supremacist view of history and culture." In an officially released statement, UN Special Rapporteur Karima Bennoune, who works in...

New York City Greek-American elected officials are calling on the Trump administration to formally rebuff Turkey’s President, Recep Erdogan, for his decision to close the historic Hagia Sophia as a museum. State Senators Michael Gianaris and Andrew Gounardes, Assembly Member...

  Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias announced on Monday that "at the request of Greece, a broad consensus was reached to proceed with a list of further measures if Turkey continues its delinquent attitude." The Minister made his remarks after...

  "Turkey must finally decide what its broader geopolitical goal will be," said Margaritis Schinas, the European Commission's vice-president and Commissioner for the promotion of the European way of life, during the presentation of the new EU strategy for the...

On the eve of Turkey’s planned inauguration of using Hagia Sophia as a mosque, the US House of Representatives passed, by unanimous consent, an amendment offered by Congresswoman Dina Titus (D-NV) objecting to Turkey’s seizure of the Great Church...