Turkey could pause energy-exploration operations in the eastern Mediterranean Sea for a while pending talks with Greece, presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said Tuesday. In an interview with broadcaster CNN Turk, Kalin said President Tayyip Erdogan had requested that operations be put on hold as a constructive approach to negotiations. Long-standing ...
The EU will not submit to blackmail by the government of Turkey to accept larger numbers of refugees from the Syrian civil war, French European Affairs Minister Amelie de Montchalin said on Friday. “What we see at the Greek-Turkish border… It was a form of blackmail. It was a way ...
