An interview with former Deputy Prime Minister Cevdet Yilmaz

It is rare to see a government throw a sustained tantrum against another due to differences over foreign policy, especially without first attempting to solve it through diplomatic means....

The German government’s Commissioner for Tourism, Thomas Bareiss, said Monday that tourism with Turkey will resume soon. Bareiss told German broadcaster NTV that “every country should be treated fairly and I...

Former Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Sunday that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and his French counterpart Emanuel Macron suffer from “strategic blindness”. In a televised speech...

Turkey will respond with its own steps if the European Union imposes further sanctions on Ankara, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday after meeting the EU’s top diplomat....

Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi yesterday warned that annexation might cause Israel’s relations with Jordan and the European Union to deteriorate, Arab48 reported. According to the website, the EU has discussed punishing...

An Italian Member of the European Parliament (MEP) has accused the Algerian government of “suppressing” the indigenous Amazigh community in the Kabylie region following the passing of two laws...

The Chairman of the Libya’s High Council of State, Khalid Al-Mishri, and European Union Ambassador to the North African state, Alan Bugeja, yesterday discussed the repercussions of renegade General Khalifa Haftar’s aggression on the capital, Tripoli. This...

Turkey said on Wednesday it is disappointed by the European Union’s decision to exclude it from a list of countries recommended for non-essential travel and called on the bloc...

Germany took over the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union on July 1, Anadolu reports. In the next six months, members of the German government will...

The Joint List is urging the European Union (EU) to suspend its ties with Israel if it annexes large parts of the occupied Palestinian West Bank, reported the Times of Israel. In...

Syrian regime President Bashar Al-Assad has to change his behaviour if he wants EU support, EU High Representative of Foreign Policy and Vice-President Josep Borrell said yesterday. Speaking during...

Israel’s planned annexation of the occupied West Bank will negatively affect its relations with the European Union (EU), the German Ambassador to Israel, Susanne Wasum-Rainer, announced yesterday. “The EU...

According to Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz, 1 July is not “a sacred date” to implement the proposed annexation of more Palestinian land. In response, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

Tunisian authorities yesterday thwarted an attempt by migrants to enter Europe, the country’s news agency TAP quoted local sources as saying It added that the Maritime Guard Units in Tunisia’s...

The proposals of the EU on the Cyprus issue, “which have never referred to the equal rights of the Turkish Cypriots on the island’s natural resources, are “far from...

A UN human rights expert on Friday urged the EU to use its “economic weight, diplomatic expertise and aid, trade and investment leverage” to forestall looming Israeli plans to...

Whether or not Israel’s government goes through with the annexation of any part of the occupied West Bank starting in July as the newly formed Israeli government has declared,...

The Belgian parliament today passed a resolution urging the government to call on the European Union to impose sanctions against Israel if it proceeds with its plan to annex large swaths...

The European Union expressed its concern on Thursday about the increasing number of child victims of the conflict in Yemen. An EU spokesperson said that civilians, including children, are...

The Belgian Chamber of Representatives will today be voting on whether to “formally recognise the State of Palestine.” The resolution, said Socialist MP Malik Ban Achour, urges the federal...

In a surprising step, Norway decided to reduce its funding to the Palestinian Ministry of Education, claiming that the Palestinian Authority continues to print school curricula that they say...

France’s foreign minister on Wednesday called on its European Union partners to hold urgent talks on the bloc’s future relations with Turkey, which has clashed with Paris over its...

More than 1,000 elected officials from 25 European countries have signed a letter opposing Israel’s latest planned annexation of Palestinian territory, Haaretz has reported. With the illegal annexation of...

Libyan Minister of Justice Mohamed Lamloum has call on the EU to help investigate the issue of mass graves found in the areas liberated from militias of renegade General...

Sixty members of the European Parliament members have called on Bahrain to release prisoners of conscience and prominent political detainees because their lives are at risk from Covid-19. The...

Politics is defined as the art of diplomatic engagement with others. This is a nice and good definition, but it is definitely not an accurate definition of American foreign...

The 2019-20 UEFA Champions League season will be completed with a ‘Final 8’ format as this year’s final match will take place in Portugal’s Lisbon on Aug 23, Anadolu...

A key goal of Turkish Islamists, led by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), is the conversion of the Hagia Sophia Museum back into a mosque. It...

High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell said on Monday that European countries “encourage the Israelis and the Palestinians to engage in a credible...

Since Israel announced its plan to annex swathes of the occupied West Bank, the EU has only hypothesised on what steps the bloc may take in response. The most...

Israel should be punished with EU wide sanctions if it goes ahead with its planned annexation of further Palestinian territory, the World Council of Churches has said in a letter...