Turkic peoples

Turkey on June 7 stressed its commitment to protecting the rights of Turkish Cypriots in the Eastern Mediterranean after the Greek Cypriot administration said it had signed contracts with major energy industry players.

Turkey's foreign minister on May 23 praised Kazakhstan for its support to Ahıska Turks, also known as Meskhetian Turks.

The Turkic Council countries established a Chamber of Commerce and Industry on May 17.

Ankara is determined to protect Turkish Cypriots' rights in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Aegean Sea under the international law, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on May 5.

Turkey will grant citizenship to Meskhetian Turks, also known as Ahıska Turks, who are already U.S. citizens, foreign minister said on March 11.           

France's president has said his country fully backs Cyprus's sovereign right to search for gas off the island nation's coast amid continued opposition by neighboring Turkey.

Turkey will begin drilling for resources around Cyprus, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday, a move that could create tensions with neighboring Cyprus and Greece over ownership of natural resources.

Attempts to tap gas and oil in the eastern Mediterranean have caused friction between Athens and Ankara.

The epic tales of Dede Qorqud, passed on for centuries by the Oghuz Turks, have been added to UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

An accord reunifying ethnically split Cyprus could unlock a deal to convey gas discovered in fields off Israel, Egypt and Cyprus to markets through neighboring Turkey's existing pipeline network, the leader of the island's breakaway Turkish Cypriots said Monday.

For Spring/Summer 2019, Turkish fashion designer Zeynep Kartal's collection celebrates the designer's ties with both her Turkish heritage and the place she now calls her second home, England. The collection also pays homage to "Nelson's Lost Jewel," by Martyn Downer, and the diamond chelengk given to Lord Nelson by Ottoman Sultan Selim III of Turkey.