Author: Cemil Alan

Türkiye provided technical equipment on Sunday to the Movement of Mothers of Srebrenica and Zepa Enclaves, an activist association representing 6,000 survivors who lost family members in the 1995 Srebrenica genocide. The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) equipped the association’s office with modern technology. Munira Subasic, the president of the association, said the projects carried out by TIKA in every field in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the support it gave them are very important for their struggle. The office carries out activities at the national and international level to commemorate the victims of the genocide, raise awareness in the international community…

The modern Greek Argonauts are the Diaspora, following the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts to retrieve the Golden Fleece from remote Colchis. By Steve BakalisIn antiquity, many Greeks migrated to new Hellenistic cities founded in Alexander the Great’s wake. The power of these cities was based on the spirit of Alexander’s Oath at Opis, as it was based on their ability to be connected more by language, culture, and history than by law or a hierarchical relationship. Homonoia, the pursuit of order and unity, which had been a growing preoccupation among the Greeks for some time, is the central…

The staunchly secular Republican People’s Party (CHP) has been riven by divisions since Kemal Kilicdaroglu lost a bitterly fought May runoff against Turkey’s dominant but divisive president. At the party’s annual congress, delegates voted to replace Kilicdaroglu with the relatively unknown Ozgur Ozel after squandering what many viewed as the opposition’s best chance to end two decades of Erdogan’s Islamic conservative rule. The May election came in the throes of a dire cost-of-living crisis that analysts blame squarely on Erdogan’s unorthodox economic beliefs. Kilicdaroglu managed to pull together a multi-faceted alliance that included both right-wing nationalists and left-wing socialists and…

A new era of cooperation benefits Turkey, Greece and the European Union at a time of upheaval, says Migration Minister Dimitris Kairidis. Greece’s migration minister has welcomed the Turkish government’s willingness to reduce migration flows from Asia into Europe, during an interview with Al Jazeera. “From the Greek point of view, it looks like a u-turn in a positive way, and we are here to fully take advantage of it and to help the u-turn,” Dimitris Kairidis said. He was comparing the new Turkish attitude to Ankara’s policy in March 2020, when Turkey unilaterally departed from a four-year-old agreement with…

A 30-year-old foreign national was arrested for drug trafficking at Athens international airport “Eleftherios Venizelos” on Tuesday afternoon. The woman had over 35 kg of raw cannabis in her luggage. According to the police, an investigation in cooperation with the DEA office of the US embassy located the woman after she landed in Greece on a flight from Switzerland. A total of 37 kilograms of cannabis was detected in the woman’s two pieces of luggage, upon her arrival in Athens. The raw cannabis was packed in 4 nylon packages that were confiscated together with one mobile phone. The Swiss national…

Ankara has offered to mediate between the Israelis and Palestinians amid growing tensions and violence between both sides. Türkiye is ready to undertake a mediator role in the current Israeli-Palestinian tension, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said late Monday. “I would like to state that Türkiye is ready for any kind of mediation, including prisoner exchanges if the parties request it.” “We continue to step up our diplomatic contacts, which we have been maintaining for a while and have intensified even more in the last three days,” Erdoğan said after a Cabinet meeting in the capital Ankara. Erdoğan said the…

ANKARA, Oct 26 (Reuters) – Turkey’s health minister said on Thursday that he had urged the World Health Organization to guarantee the provision of medical services to Gazans hit by the Israel-Hamas war, and that its efforts so far were insufficient. The WHO defended its actions, saying it had been striving to get supplies into Gaza since the start of the emergency. Israel has imposed a “total siege” on Gaza since a deadly cross-border incursion by Hamas militants on Oct. 7, and the Rafah crossing with Egypt, controlled by Cairo, has been the only route in for humanitarian aid. NATO member Turkey has…

Türkiye’s abundance of cultural heritage, fascinating historical sites, great architecture, food and people have made it a go-to holiday destination for decades. Istanbul is an incredibly vibrant city, which straddles two continents, but the country is also known for its beautiful landscape and coastlines. However, its proximity to the continuing conflict in Israel, which erupted on Saturday October 7, is causing concern about how safe it is to travel to this region of the world. Here is everything we know about travelling to Türkiye amidst the Israel-Hamas conflict. Is it safe to travel to Türkiye at the moment? Türkiye has not been impacted by…

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Saturday that Russian leader Vladimir Putin would not be arrested in Brazil if he attends the Group of 20 meeting in Rio de Janeiro next year. Interviewed on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Delhi by news show Firstpost, Lula said Putin would be invited to next year’s event, adding that he himself planned to attend a BRICS bloc of developing nations meeting due in Russia before the Rio meeting. “I believe that Putin can go easily to Brazil,” Lula said. “What I can say to you is that if…

When Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, side by side with his Greek counterpart, announced on Tuesday that Turkey had entered a new and positive era with Greece, there was disbelief among many in Athens. “Already?” George, a retired ship captain in his 60s, snorted. “I don’t remember how many times we heard the same things.” Being neighbours and historic nemeses for the past century, Turkey and Greece have had occasional shouting matches, near-conflict incidents, and times of cooperation over the decades. Yet relations between the countries came very close to a possible hot war in 2020, when Turkish and Greek warships collided…