Mevlut Cavusoglu

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...

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)...

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 foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu warned Cyprus on Thursday that his country will not hesitate to use force over drilling rights in the eastern Mediterranean. Speaking on Turkey's state television, he pointed out that " cannot take unilateral steps in...

Heads of European Union Mediterranean states offered full support on Friday for fellow EU member Cyprus as Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that the country's natural gas exploration vessel Fatih has started “drilling right in the west of...

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...

The Wednesday meeting in Brussels between Foreign Minister George Katrougalos and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu took place in a positive atmosphere, according to diplomatic sources. According to the same sources, who were quoted by the Athens News Agency, the...

This week's announcement of the discovery of a natural gas field containing 5 to 8 trillion cubic feet of the resource, in plot 10 of Cyprus' Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), has been nothing short of explosive. The news of the major discovery...

Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday that Turkey will begin drilling for oil and gas near Cyprus in the coming days, according to a report by the state-owned news agency Anadolu. Ankara's move could stoke tensions with neighboring Cyprus and...