The Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a highly provocative press release against Greek politicians who made statements related to the occasion of the anniversary of the internationally recognised Genocide of the Pontic Greeks on May 19, 1919 by the predecessor to the modern Turkish state.
The European Union should keep its doors open to Turkey despite the country's descent into authoritarianism and its decision to drill for gas in the East Mediterranean off Cyprus, Greece's Foreign Minister Georgios Katrougalos told U.S. news site Politico.
Syriac Christians, a religious group in Syria, reject the creation of a safe zone Turkey plans to establish in northern Syria due to Ottoman atrocities in the past, sociologist Amy Austin Holmes said in the U.S.-based magazine National Interest on Thursday.