The Turkish provocations don’t seem to end. In a non-paper Ankara distributed to all European Union member states, with the exception of Cyprus which it “does not recognize as a country” (sic), Turkey warns the EU not to interfere in the issue of the Cyprus EEZ, threatening that this will deteriorate the Greek-Turkish relations and the prospects for a solution to the Cyprus problem.

Ekrem Imamoglu, the candidate of the Kemalist opposition and winner of the first poll in the municipal elections in Constantinople, won again today’s the re-election vote and he is the new mayor of the city.

The State Department calls for the immediate reopening of the Theological School of Halki, according to the State Department’s annual report on religious freedoms in the world for 2018.