Tag: Cyprus

BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:40 P.M.) - On Friday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for an international conference on the situation in the eastern Mediterranean. Erdogan's call came during a meeting ...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (9:30 P.M.) - On Tuesday, the Egyptian army announced the start of the joint Egyptian, Greek and Cypriot naval and air exercises, dubbed "Medusa-10", which will continue for ...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:00 P.M.) - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stressed the need to "negotiate a two-state solution" in Cyprus, noting that there are "two separate peoples" on the island. ...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (2:30 P.M.) - The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Political and Military Affairs, Clark Cooper, said this week that his country is unhappy with Cyprus for continuing ...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (11:20 A.M.) - In a statement on Monday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held Greece and Cyprus responsible for the current situation in the eastern Mediterranean, saying that ...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (12:30 P.M.) - Turkish Vice President Fuad Oktay said on Wednesday evening that his country "will not give up an inch of its land or a drop of ...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (1:20 P.M.) - An Israeli news agency reported on Monday that a Russian fighter jet approached within a mile of an Israeli plane before being warned by air ...

Cypriot representatives at a meeting of the EU’s Committee of Permanent Representatives (Coreper II) have refused to endorse the imposition of planned sanctions on Belarus, sources in Brussels told Sputnik ...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (4:40 P.M.) - On Saturday, the Turkish Ministry of Defense announced that the leadership of its peace forces in Cyprus and the leadership of the security forces in ...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (11:00 A.M.) - The Cypriot President condemned Turkey's "aggressiveness" and called for talks to resolve the dispute over maritime borders and gas exploration rights, warning that the escalation ...