In two separate speeches delivered on April 28, Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan strongly criticized the Islamic world for failure in a number of areas

PM Davutoğlu throws the ball into Europe’s court, noting that the continent must lift visa for Turkish citizens if a March migrant deal is to continue

Gaza has many problems

A few hours after Turkey’s European Union Affairs Minister Volkan Bozkır said the government could fulfil all necessary benchmarks by May 2 for visa-free travel for Turkish citizens within the EU, the parliament in Ankara had to take a two-day recess due to escalating tension among deputies

Turkey’s foreign trade deficit has fallen sharply for the seventh month in a row in March, according to figures released by the Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜİK) on April 29

The distribution of new biometric passports containing chips, which are necessary to travel to Schengen countries, will start on June 1, with the government working on the necessary legal regulations

When I tried to organize a workshop on EU-Turkey relations a few years ago, I was criticized by my colleagues, an academic working in southern Antalya’s Akdeniz (Mediterranean) University told me recently

“The real litmus test” for Turkey in terms of relations with the European Union will be accession negotiations if the country truly wants to become a member of the 28-member club, a senior EU figure has said

There are three important thresholds or tests ahead of Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu in the next two months which can be decisive for Turkey in closing the gap with the West

The European Union is “not doing Turkey a favor” by potentially granting Turkish citizens visa-free travel to EU member countries, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said during an official trip to Croatia on April 27

Violent tension between lawmakers from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) descended into a brawl during a plenary session on April 27, delaying efforts to pass legislation on an EU migration deal

Turkey’s crackdown on the media and reported human rights abuses are pushing the country further away from Europe even as it hopes to join the European Union, a senior official for the bloc has said

Turkey will fulfill all 72 criteria required to ensure the European Union grants its citizens visa-free travel by a May 4 deadline, Turkish EU Minister and Chief EU Negotiator Volkan Bozkır said April 28

Egypt’s Foreign Ministry said on April 27 that up to 16 Egyptian migrants may have been killed in Libya in a clash with people smugglers

U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon hit out April 28 at what he called “increasingly restrictive” refugee policies in Europe as the continent faces its worst migrant crisis in decades, during a visit to Austria, whose parliament adopted one of Europe’s toughest asylum laws the previous day

In a clear acknowledgment of the generations-long and multi-layered impact of the presence of millions of Syrian refugees in Turkey, the EU’s executive arm has urged Ankara to concentrate its efforts on measures to help better integrate Syrians into Turkish society

Turkey, the United States and the European Union have condemned an April 26 Crimean court decision to ban the Mejlis, the governing body of the Crimean Tatar community

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has said it is supporting the southeastern Turkish city of Gaziantep with an ambitious set of policies to tackle climate change by cutting emissions by 20 percent by 2023 in a written statement

Transportation, Maritime Affairs and Communications Minister Binali Yıldırım has said Turkey will buy oil from Iran in exchange of train rails in line with an 80-million-euro deal

“The immigration deal is very important for the European Union and relations with Turkey; actually it has the highest importance now,” said European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs Pierre Moscovici during an interview on April 25 in Istanbul