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The fourth Turkish oil and gas research ship, the "Oruc Reis," is on its way to the eastern Mediterranean, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said via Twitter on Monday. His tweet was in response to Turkish Republican People's Party (CHP)...

  Turkey's president issued a thinly-veiled threat against Greece and Cyprus on Tuesday amid a series of incidents in the Aegean and Mediterranean seas. Recep Tayyip Erdogan was addressing lawmakers from his ruling party in Ankara when he said: "Opportunistic attempts...

Turkey's leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has targeted the country's main opposition party for its legacy of "giving away" Aegean islands in 1923. In a speech on Saturday, the Turkish president took a swipe at Kemal Kilicdaroglu, head of the secular...

The two Aegean islets of Imia are tiny, uninhabited and harbor no oil or gas, so how did they bring two NATO allies – Greece and Turkey -- to the brink of war 22 years ago this month? Unlikely as...

  A pair of Turkish F-16 jets entered Greek airspace on Thursday, before being engaged in a “mock dogfight” by the Greek air force, local media report. The Turkish jets infringed on Greek airspace between the islands of Limnos and Lesvos,...

  Turkey's main opposition leader has issued a strong call for the country's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to clarify whether 18 islets in the Aegean Sea in fact belong to Turkey. Leader of the secular Republican People's Party, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, made...

In an interview with a local newspaper, Turkish opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu attacked president Recep Tayyip Erdogan for choosing to dispute the Lausanne treaty and not the "18 Aegean islands the Greeks have under occupation." This is not the first...

Turkey’s opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu accused Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan of phony patriotism with regard to Cyprus and the Aegean. Speaking at a meeting of Turkish industrialists on Thursday, the head of the CHP party wondered why Erdogan is not...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras replied to comments made by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan regarding the 1923 Lausanne Treaty as a defeat for Turkey because it failed to secure islands near the Turkish coast. Tsipras said that the...