The Turkish government declared that it will suspend its relations with the European Union if the Greek half of Cyprus takes the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union scheduled in July 2012 without first solving the reunification issue between the Greek Cypriots and the Turkish Cypriots. Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan stated that Turkey does not...

Turkey has fulfilled its promise of “remembering” the Gaza Flotilla Incident in May 2010 and particularly the victims of the actions of the Israeli commandos in the IDF’s (Israeli Defense Force) Operation Sky Winds against the human rights activists’ Gaza Flotilla that was bringing aid and other supplies through the blockade of the Gaza Strip. Turkey’s...

At a conference of Palestinian ambassadors in the city of Istanbul, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan started his speech by listing the names of the nine activists, including a Turkish-American citizen, killed in 2010′s “Gaza Flotilla Incident” on the 31st of May when the Israel Defense Forces carried out “Operation Sky Winds”...