Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Albania Thursday on the first stop of a Balkan tour that will also take him to Serbia as he tries to boost ties with a region once ruled by the ...

Turkey stands at the centre ... Vladimir Putin’s Russia and Volodymyr Zelensky’s Ukraine. Subscribe to Balkan Insight Premium to read the full article. Please login to your account below ...

The EU accession process has been the major driver of anti-corruption efforts in EU enlargement countries, and the governments of these countries (Turkey and the Western Balkans) have made efforts to ...

Turkey is still bombing armed Kurdish insurgents in Iraq and Syria, even after their leader urged them to lay down their arms and disband, and their group declared a cease-fire. By Ben Hubbard and ...

Heterogeneous Turkey shows influences from the Middle East, Mediterranean, the Balkan peninsula, and Central Asia, but it’s much more than its clichéd image of where East meets West.

Sackings of mayors and multiple arrests threaten to torpedo a tentative peace deal with the Kurds – and Turkey’s president is doing this on purpose, experts claim. In finding Greece ...

Corruption and weak rule of law pose a significant challenge to political, social and economic progress, and cause human and civil rights violations in the Western Balkans and Turkey. These issues ...

TASS/. Russia, China and Turkey saved the Western Balkans during the coronavirus pandemic, while the European Union "acted as a federation of selfish rich countries," Albanian Prime Minister Edi ...

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has argued that Ukraine should not join the European Union before countries in the ...

This statement was originally published on seenpm.org on 3 March 2025. Journalism and media in the Western Balkans and Turkey are in a state of perpetual crisis, according to the conclusion of a study ...

Erdogan will inaugurate the Great Mosque of Tirana, the largest mosque in the Balkans, which has been paid for by Turkey. Some 600 Turkish companies employ more than 15,000 people in Albania ...