Month: February 2022

Israel’s President Isaac Herzog will pay an official visit to Turkiye in March, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday.Speaking to reporters ahead of a trip to Ukraine, Erdogan said Herzog’s expected visit to Turkiye would happen “in mid-March…

Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said Thursday that a US envoy is scheduled to visit next week to discuss resuming talks about a maritime border demarcation dispute.Berri made the comments while meeting with the Press Syndicate Council where he…

The UN migration agency said Wednesday that it is “horrified” by news of the reported deaths of 12 irregular migrants on the Turkiye-Greece border after they were pushed back from Greece. “We are following up with relevant authorities about the circums…

Reciprocal charter flights were relaunched Wednesday between Istanbul and Yerevan amid talks between Turkiye and Armenia to normalize relations. Zvartnos Airport received the first flight from Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen Airport around 2.20 a.m. Thursday,…

A magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck in the Mediterranean Sea off the southwest coast of Cyprus island early Thursday, Turkiye’s disaster management agency reported. The quake took place at 00:03 a.m. local time (2103 GMT) about 136 kilometers (84.5 miles…

Turkiye on Thursday celebrated 30 years of diplomatic ties with Moldova by reiterating its commitment to safeguard the territorial integrity of the Eastern European state.”We are pleased to see that our relations with Moldova, which we regard as a neig…

“Our relations with Ukraine have registered remarkable progress in recent years on the basis of mutual understanding, trust and common interests,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement, adding that relations, which are currently at the level of stra…