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Cartoon of Erdogan in French Satirical Magazine Sparks Turkish Fury
A front-page cartoon in the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo which mocks President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sparked furious reactions from Turkish officials on Tuesday. “We condemn this most...
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EC President Condemns Erdogan’s Comments, Vows to Assess Turkey’s Behavior
Charles Michel, the President of the European Council. Credit: AMNA In a Wednesday interview with RTL Radio, European Council President Charles Michel pledged that the European Union will assess...
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Turkey Covers Up Priceless Frescoes in Ancient Greek Church for Muslim Prayers
The Chora church before and after the cover up as the ancient building is readied for Muslim prayers. Credit: @mhrpolat/Twitter Turkey recently announced that the ancient Greek Orthodox Chora...
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Seven Dead as Buildings Collapse, Tsunami Hits Turkish Coast After Aegean...
Destroyed building in the Turkish city of Izmir (Smyrna) after Friday’s earthquake. Credit: ajplus/Twitter A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 on the Richter scale struck just under the Aegean...
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Erdogan Now Aiming his Guns at Europe
Credit: AMNA The grisly terrorist attacks in France’s cities of Nice and Avignon, which followed the verbal exchanges between French President Emmanuel Macron and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip...
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More Than 70 Confirmed Dead in Turkey After Aegean Sea Earthquake
Destroyed building in Izmir after the earthquake on Friday. Credit: ajplus/Twitter The powerful earthquake that hit the Aegean Sea on Friday has killed 76 people in Turkey, the country’s disaster...
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Three-Year-Old Girl Pulled Alive From Rubble Days After Deadly Aegean Earthquake
A wounded three-year-old girl was rescued on Monday, days after a powerful magnitude 6.7 earthquake hit Turkey’s Aegean coast. Elif Perincek was pulled from debris nearly 65 hours after the quake in...
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Trump’s Turkish Ally Erdogan Stays Mum on Biden Victory
Donald J. Trump participates in a joint press conference with Turkish President Recep Erdogan in 2019. Credit: White House As world leaders, including Greece’s Kyriakos Mitsotakis, rushed to...
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Turkey Celebrates Azeri Victory Against Armenia
Azeri President Ilham Aliyev at a recent meeting with Erdogan Turkey said on Tuesday a deal to end more than a month of fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh had secured important gains for its close ally...
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Pompeo Will Not Meet Turkish FM, Will Speak With Patriarch Bartholomew on...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discovered on Tuesday that he will not in fact be meeting with Turkish leaders as he had planned on his upcoming trip to Turkey next week, according to Middle Eastern...
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Turkey Turns Peacekeeper by Establishing Military Foothold in the Caucasus
Turkish soldiers in action. Credit: Wikipedia Turkey and Russia signed an agreement establishing a joint center to monitor the ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh on Wednesday morning and the two countries...
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Turkey’s Ruined Hagia Triada Church to Become Cultural Museum
Hagia Triada Church, built in 1846 in Turkey, will be made into a new cultural center, according to an announcement made this week. Credit: Hurriyet/Twitter After being placed on a short list for...
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European Parliament Halts Payments of EU Funds to Ankara
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...
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Young Turkish Prodigy and Greek Artist Band Together to Support Earthquake...
Nikos Nikolaidis and Akar in front of their work titled “Samir.” Credit: Nikos Nikolaidis In a heart-warming act of compassion and solidarity, Nikos Nikolaidis, a Greek artist from Thessaloniki, and...
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Mike Pompeo Meets With Patriarch Bartholomew as Turkey Snubs Visit
Credit: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo/Twitter US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with the head of the Orthodox Church, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, in Istanbul on Tuesday to discuss religious...
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Pompeo Tours Istanbul Mosque, Meets Nuncio on Tour to Promote Religious Freedom
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his wife visiting Rustem Pasha Mosque in Istanbul on Tuesday. Credit: Mike Pompeo/ Twitter As part of his whirlwind tour aimed toward promoting religious freedom...
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Missing Sister of “Kalymnos Lady” Statue Discovered on Aegean Seabed
A headless bronze statue dating from the Hellenistic times, weighing 300 kg (661 pounds) and measuring six feet in height, was caught by Turkish fishermen recently off the coast of Marmaris (Physkos),...
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Turkey Prevents EU to Inspect Ship Suspected of Carrying Weapons to Libya
Credit: Operation Irini Turkey has prevented the European Union’s naval mission enforcing the Libya arms embargo from checking a suspect freighter off the war-torn country’s coast, Germany’s Der...
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Turkey Blasts EU, Greek Naval Commander for Stopping Vessel En Route to Libya
Image capture from video released by Turkey Turkey’s Foreign Ministry on Monday summoned the ambassadors of Germany, Italy and the European Union to protest what it calls “the illegal” interception of...
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Erdogan Launches Attack on Macron, Hopes France “Gets Rid of Him” Soon
File photo of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and French President Emmanuel Macron. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan continued to provoke French President...
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