"You come out here, and try to accuse Turkey, to give a message to your country. It is not possible for me to accept this," Turkish foreign minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu told Greek foreign minister Nikos Dendias in Ankara Thursday, at a meeting designed to mend relations. Dendias had accused Turkish warplanes of violating Greek airspace and of spreading "fake news" over their confrontation on Turkish gas-drilling in Greek-claimed waters.

THE US has cancelled a plan to send two warships to the Black Sea according to Turkish foreign ministry officials.

On a summer afternoon nearly four years ago, Maryam Muhammet thought her family's long journey to freedom was almost complete. The Uyghur woman had arrived in Istanbul from Egypt weeks prior with her two sons, a toddler and an infant, after fleeing the Chinese region of Xinjiang. Her husband had not yet joined the family in Turkey. The couple had heard from others in their community that Egyptian immigration officials-ostensibly acting at the behest of the Chinese government-were hassling Uyghur men as they left, so they decided he would come later, on his own.

Turkey president Recep Erdogan is a dangerous person and NY Knicks player Enes Kanter sounds justified in fearing for his life ... so says U.S. Congressman Peter King. Remember, Kanter just backed out of an upcoming team trip to the U.K....

Britain's Tom Pidcock wins his first race for Ineos Grenadiers, as Mark Cavendish takes his third stage win at the Tour of Turkey.

Mark Cavendish wins his third stage in a row at the Tour of Turkey as he continues his revival after three years without a win.

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the right to liberty and freedom of expression of Turkish journalist and author Ahmet Altan had been violated due to his detention and imprisonment on charges related to the 2016 coup attempt, Ekathimerini writes. Altan, 71, was detained over allegations that he disseminated subliminal messages related to the coup attempt during a TV programme, and articles criticising the government.

Paleoanthropologists have uncovered two new specimens of Homo erectus at the East Turkana site in Kenya. They’ve also verified the age of a skull fragment of Homo erectus - one of the oldest specimens attributable to this species - found earlier at the same site. “Homo erectus is the first hominin that we know about [...]

Mark Cavendish wins his second stage at the Tour of Turkey in as many days following a three-year victory drought.

Britain's Mark Cavendish wins stage two of the Tour of Turkey, his first victory in a race for three years.