Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s uncompromising stance on a potential invasion of Greece has reignited tensions in the Aegean Sea, prompting questions about Turkey’s membership in NATO. Erdogan asserted that Turkey would strike against anyone interfering with its objectives in the region, leaving many to wonder why a nation with imperialistic tendencies and perceived as a terrorist threat, similar... 

Joe Biden has formally recognized the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Turkish forces as an act of genocide, becoming the first US president to do so since Ronald Reagan and inflaming already strained relations with a strategic ally. “Each year on this day, we remember the lives of all those who died in the Ottoman-era Armenian Genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing such an atrocity from ever... 

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has warned Turkey against buying Russian military equipment as it would undermine the NATO alliance. It would be “reckless” if Turkey used the Russian-made S-400 anti-missile system, he added during a Wednesday NATO event in Washington. “Turkey must choose,” said Pence. “Does it want to remain a critical partner in the most successful military alliance in history... 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier engaged in a new war of words, trading mutual accusations. Meeting with Christian IDF soldiers on Sunday as acting Defence Minister, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the row with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who earlier questioned the morality of “Jews in Israel”. Turkish... 

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu during the meeting with his U.S. counterpart Mike Pompeo agreed on Syria’s city of Manbij road map, providing for the withdrawal of the Kurdish militia linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party or PKK on June 4. According to the joint plan of Washington and Ankara, these formations will be replaced by the Turkmen and Arab units that will establish control... 

The European Union’s “deal” with Turkey on “refugees”—in terms of which Turkey was supposed to clamp down on the mass invasion of Europe via its territory in return for Syrians directly flown to Europe—appears to be on the point of collapse after Turkey suspended the readmission agreement with Greece. According to a report in the Turkish Hurriyet Daily newspaper, Foreign Minister Mevlut... 

Turkey is seriously considering withdrawing from NATO, as the relationship with the alliance continues to worsen. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu warned of retaliatory actions if the American bill about sanctions against Turkey becomes law. At the end of last week, US lawmakers published information about the annual funding of defence in the amount of $717 billion. The document temporarily... 

The Turkish foreign minister said that Erdogan and Tillerson held constructive talks in Ankara and agreed to normalize relations. “We are agreed on normalising relations again,” Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said after talks with US counterpart Rex Tillerson in Ankara, saying that ties were at a “critical phase” and vowing to create “mechanisms” to discuss... 

Continuing the fiery rhetoric of the Turkish government Ottoman Empire towards the EU today, President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told fellow Turks living in Europe that they were the continent’s future and that they must stake a claim to it. Campaigning in the Central Anatolian city of Eskişehir for the passage of a referendum which would grant his office decisive new powers, Erdoğan addressed... 

In one of the first reactions from Ankara to the Dutch election result, Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, warned that Europe was heading towards the abyss and that ‘holy wars’ (Jihad) would soon begin on the continent – this coming despite the fact that nationalist Geert Wilders, a vocal critic of Islam, was pushed into second place by the center right Prime Minister, Mark Rutte. Çavuşoğlu,...