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Cale Brown, the spokesperson for the office of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Sunday, August 16 that the Secretary had met with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in the Dominican Republic. The statement read: "Secretary Pompeo and...

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu did not rule out the possibility of a future joint appeal of Greece and Turkey to the International Court of Justice of the Hague, in order to solve their maritime disagreements in the region...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu repeated on Thursday his threat that Turkey intends to annex and open to the public the ghost town of Varosha in the occupied part of Famagusta province on Cyprus. Speaking to the television network CNN Turk,...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was in Cyprus on Monday, visiting the occupied territories of the politically-divided island. Cavusoglu held an official meeting with the Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Acinci and other officials of the Turkish Cypriot community. In a joint...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu spoke to the 11th ''Ambassadors Conference'' in Ankara on Monday, where he presented a map depicting what Turkey considers to be the extent of its own continental shelf in the Mediterranean Sea. The map Cavusoglu...

Turkey's provocative statements challenging the Republic of Cyprus' sovereign rights show no signs of ceasing, as Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu made another claim against Nicosia's right to exploit its energy resources on Friday. Speaking with Turkey's Anadolu news agency,...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu spoke about Greece's Muslim minority in Thrace during a speech at an Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. Cavusoglu said that the minority in Thrace ''does not benefit from the...

In an interview on television channel NTV on Thursday, Mevlut Cavusoglu, Turkey's Foreign Minister, told Greek Cypriots ''to wake up from a sleep, or give it up if it is a dream, about Turkish troop withdrawal''. Cavusoglu noted that he does...

Anyone who dreams of zero Turkish troops in Cyprus needs to wake up because it will never happen, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was quoted as saying on Tuesday. According to CNA, Cavusoglu was giving a speech at the Turkish...

Turkey will not stop the natural gas and oil drilling work around Cyprus, having in mind that we need to share the resources fairly, Turkey's foreign minister Cavusoglu said on Tuesday. "Turkey will not allow any unilateral activity. We need...

"We are neighbors. We are friends," Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told the Greek Reporter on Monday, ahead of the meeting between Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in New York. The two leaders are...

On Saturday morning, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told CNN Turk that the blame for the escalating war of words between Turkey and Greece lays in the hands of the Greek Defense Minister, Panos Kammenos for making "provocative" comments. "That...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu arrived late Monday night at the occupied northern part of Cyprus to meet with Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci and hold a press conference. The visit comes after the sudden withdrawal of Akinci from peace...

A non-solution to the Cyprus problem will lead to discussions on a “plan B” Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday evening. “We have said that there is an opportunity that cannot be missed. However, if there are some...

The Cyprus talks continue in the hopes of finding a solution to end the divide of the island caused by the illegal military occupation of Turkey since 1974 of its northern third. The current UN-led talks are seen as a “last...