Europe

The Plenary of the European Parliament recently adopted an amendment brought forward by a Greek MEP to halt all European funding to the Turkish authorities. The amendment was proposed by Nikos Androulakis, an MEP for the Socialist and Democrats group...

France recalled its ambassador in Ankara after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the French president needed “mental treatment,” and criticized Emmanuel Macron’s policy toward Islam. Such “excess” and “coarseness” on the part of Erdogan are “unacceptable,” Macron’s office said...

Colonel Tamer Zincir, an official belonging to the Turkish Defense Ministry, repeated on Monday the Turkish position regarding Ankara's rights to their so-called ''Blue Homeland.'' As IBNA news agency reported on Monday, Zincir was giving a press conference regarding the...

Several gunshots were fired from a vehicle at the U.S. embassy in the Turkish capital, Ankara, on Monday, hitting a window in a security post but causing no casualties, broadcaster CNN Turk reported. It said police teams were searching for...

Turkey appears to have performed a U-turn on its attitude towards cryptocurrencies and has plans to investigate its own national digital currency, the country's deputy prime minister has claimed. Mehmet Simsek told Turkish television on Thursday that Ankara also wanted to...

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed 25 bilateral agreements in Istanbul on March 4 and began discussions on oil and gas explorations in disputed territorial waters as the Greek leader said that the...

Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos arrived in Ankara on Friday for talks with his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu, who visited Athens last October. The talks between the two men, as Kathimerini reports, are designed to prepare the ground for the...

Media reports in Turkey have suggested that the suicide bomber who blew himself up outside the United States Embassy in Ankara on Feb. 1 had crossed into the country from Greece. The bomber, identified as 40-year-old leftist militant Ecevit Sanli,...

Turkish Airlines launched a new initiative to promote the city of Thessaloniki, Greece's second-largest city, to Turkish tourists by sending a 13-member mission to Ankara headed by Utku Yazan, Chairman of Turkish Airlines, along with members of Greek tourist...

Turkish and Greek cartoonists will gather together in Ankara, Turkey between tomorrow and November 29, Anatolia news agency reports. The third edition of the Turkish-Greek neighborhood event will take place in the Turkish capital with contributions of Turkish and...

A diplomatic incident unfolded against the Republic of Cyprus during a meeting of the European Parliament Committee on the Environment being held in Ankara. Cypriot MEP Eleni Theocharous protested that her accreditation referred to her as representative of the ''Greek...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew presented an exhibition "Children of Lausanne" in Ankara on Thursday. The exhibition covers the history of the exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey through the photographs of the Counselor of the Greek Embassy in Ankara,...

Christos Teazis, is the first Greek academic at Ankara University and the author of a recent book titled “The Republic of the Seconds,” which examines the historical and social roots of the ruling AK Party in Turkey. One of...

On Wednesday, 2/6/2010 at the Embassy of Greece in Ankara, an event was held for the fourth year students and the professors of the Modern Greek and Literature Department of the University of Ankara. Around 20 students participated in the...

Eight photographers from as many Balkan countries demonstrate with their photographs the particularity of each people, the contemporaneous artistic tendencies, the life and historical developments in a region which has been constantly changed. The exhibition opens at the Kara...