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Sofagate: EU leaders get a taste of their own medicine

Ali Dinçer* Last week EU Council President Charles Michel and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen embarked on what they hoped would be an...

France says Turkey ‘deliberately’ snubbed EU Commission chief

France's Europe Minister Clement Beaune said Sunday that Turkey had set a "trap" for European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen by forcing her to...

Putin calls on Erdoğan to preserve Bosporus treaty

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday called on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to preserve an international convention, beneficial to Moscow, which regulates marine...

US to send two warships through Bosporus to Black Sea: Turkey

The United States will send two warships through the Bosporus to the Black Sea, the Turkish foreign ministry said on Friday, as tensions simmer...

Turkey had the highest incarceration rate in Europe in 2020: CoE annual report

Turkey had the highest incarceration rate of the 47 Council of Europe (CoE) countries as of January 2020, with 357 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants,...

Turkey strongly condemns Italian PM’s ‘ugly’ remarks on Erdoğan

Turkey on Thursday criticized Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi's "ugly" comparison of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to a tyrant, Agence France-Presse reported. Draghi on...

Italian PM calls Turkey’s Erdoğan a dictator

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi on Thursday described Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as a dictator, in remarks that risk further souring EU-Turkey ties,...

Chinese wolf-warriors meet their match in Turkey with municipal trench at embassy gate

Turkey's nationalist opposition has responded to a belligerent attitude from Beijing with workers from the Ankara Metropolitan Municipality digging a giant hole outside the...

EU lawmakers demand answers over Turkey ‘sofagate’ furore

EU lawmakers on Thursday called for the bloc's top two officials to explain a snowballing diplomatic scandal that saw Commission head Ursula von der...

Turkey blames EU for ‘sofagate’ scandal in Ankara

Turkey on Wednesday blamed the EU for seating arrangements that left European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen without a chair during a meeting...

Sofagate in Ankara: EU’s von der Leyen left standing in meeting with Erdoğan

European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen was left standing at a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at his presidential palace in...

German politician says EU chiefs’ Turkey visit means support for ‘autocrat’ Erdoğan

Sevim Dağdelen, a Kurdish-German politician from the German Left Party, has said a visit to be paid by the European Union’s top two officials...

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