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A Turkish court has begun extradition proceedings for Turkish former international football player Arif Erdem, who reportedly resides in Greece, Turkish news website Diken says. Erdem faces a possible 15-year prison sentence in Turkey for alleged membership in the outlawed...

A rubber boat carrying 16 people from Turkey to Lesvos capsized and six people drowned, with three children among them, according to Anadolu news agency. Nine people were rescued by the Turkish coast guard and one person is missing, the...

"We will never forget those who... opened their arms to the coup plotters who escaped from our country," said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday during the second anniversary of the failed coup attempt against him. Turkey commemorated the...

The Turkish army officer who was granted asylum was arrested on Monday after the Administrative Court of Appeals upheld the Greek State's request to suspend his asylum status. Suleyman Ozkaynakci is the co-pilot of the helicopter with which eight Turkish...

Ankara continues to bully Athens after Greece's Supreme Court decision for the non extradition of the eight Turkish military men who sought political asylum in Alexandroupolis after the failed coup attempt in Turkey, on July 2016. The Greek court decided...

A Greek court on Wednesday decided against a second request by Turkey for the extradition of the eight soldiers who fled to Greece in July in the aftermath of the failed coup attempt in the neighboring country. The court decision...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday insulted Greeks calling them "infidels" in a press conference on Turkish television. In an interview for three Turkish TV channels (ATV, A Haber, A News), Erdogan provoked Greeks one more time. Speaking about...

Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias on Tuesday warned that Greece "will not always be tolerant" if Turkey continues to violate air space and territorial waters in the Aegean. The Greek official spoke on Skai television saying that Ankara came very close...

A group of people with concealed faces threw paint at the Turkish consulate in Komotini on Sunday, shouting slogans in favor of the DHKP / C, the far-left Turkish organization that Ankara and the U.S. have branded as terrorists. According...

Speaking to reporters in Ankara on Thursday, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirimn spoke of 130 islets in the Aegean for which it is not clear who they belong to. Other than challenging the ownership of the islets, Yildirimn also criticized...