Turkey is beefing up measures on its border with Iran and elsewhere to prevent a likely influx of Afghan refugees.

President Erdogan says Turkey will not become ‘Europe's migrant storage unit’ as the EU guards against a new wave of Afghan refugees.

Emergency workers have battled to relieve flood-hit areas of Turkey's Black Sea region, as the death toll rose to 27 in the second natural disaster to strike the country this month.

Cyprus calls on the United Nations Security Council to force Turkish-Cypriot authorities in the north to abandon plans to partially reopen an abandoned resort on the divided Mediterranean island.

Rouhani says Iran and Turkey as two great powers of region can play a major role in resolving regional issues.

The European Union (EU) has blasted as “unacceptable" the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s “two-state” plan for the resolution of disputes over the divided island of Cyprus.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the resolution of disputes in the issue of the divided island of Cyprus is through peace talks taking place only between "the two states" on the Mediterranean island.