The leftist SYRIZA opposition has urged the conservative government to condemn Turkey’s violation of the Prespa Agreement between Greece and North Macedonia.
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Three days after the opening of the defense company ASELSAN’s headquarters in North Macedonia, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan visited Skopje on Thursday in a bid to demonstrate the role Ankara wants to play in the internal affairs of North Macedonia and the Balkans.
Recent reports indicating that the United States has resumed talks with Ankara for the sale of F-35 fighter jets in exchange for putting the Russian S-400 missile system on ice have caused a stir in Greece.
Former Istanbul street dogs Dali and Deezi now live in the Netherlands, enjoying a pampered home life after years in a shelter in the Turkish city, and as other strays face being rounded up under a new law to clear them from the streets.
A total of 372,495 tourists from Turkey visited the islands of the North Aegean since April this year, when the seven-day “visa express” was granted to nationals of the neighboring country, according to data from the General Police Directorate of the region on Thursday.
A Turkish national was arrested on Tuesday for assaulting a coast guard officer in the port city of Igoumenitsa in western Greece, it was reported on Wednesday.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will hold talks with President Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey on Wednesday in the first presidential level visit in 12 years amid a warming of long-frozen relations between the regional powers.
“The general shows how, despite his best efforts to help the president, the supposed master of the ‘art of the deal’ was treated like a chump by a roster of the world’s top authoritarians.
Turkey has taken no concrete steps towards meeting its stated desire to join the BRICS group of emerging economies but “a process is underway,” Omer Celik, the spokesperson for the country’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) said on Tuesday.
Turkey is seeking a solution to re-enter the American F-35 fighter jet program after being kicked out over its acquisition of the Russian-made S-400 missile system.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan appears to have told his European counterparts about his country’s tough stance on the Cyprus problem during last week’s informal meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels.
Information came to light recently indicating that the United States may, under certain conditions, review its decision not to supply Turkey with F-35 fighter jets.
Whoever wins the US presidential election, the Greek-American relationship – which has been “exceptionally close” in recent years – will remain unaffected, says Kurt Volker, the US special representative for Ukraine during Donald Trump’s presidency, in an interview with Kathimerini.
Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Istanbul on Sunday to protest recent legislation that critics say is leading to the killing of stray dogs across Turkey.
Turkish customs officials in the northwestern city of Edirne discovered dozens of exotic animals being smuggled into Turkey from Greece.
Speaking a day after his meeting in Brussels with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan, Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis dismissed speculation that Athens made concessions to Ankara during the incident near the eastern Aegean island of Kasos in July when an Italian ship conducted cable-laying research for the Greece-Cyprus electricity interconnection.
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