Ibrahim Kalin

Metropolitan of Bursa Elpidoforos has been selected as the new archbishop of America to replace Demetrios who stepped down earlier this month. The decision was taken by the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul.

Elpidoforos was born in Istanbul in 1967 and from August of 2011 had served as the abbot of the Monastery of Holy Trinity in Halki.

Turkish presidential spokesman İbrahım Kalın and U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton discussed the Russian S-400 air defense system via telephone on April 30, according to presidential sources.

Turkey expects President Donald Trump to use a waiver to protect it if the US Congress decides to sanction Ankara over a planned purchase of a Russian missile defense system, a Turkish presidential spokesman said on Tuesday.

Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday Istanbul's Hagia Sophia should be re-titled as a mosque instead of a museum after Sunday's elections, but did not say whether the status of the landmark site would be changed.

Turkey on Wednesday said it strongly condemned French President Emmanuel Macron's decision to declare April 24 as a day for the commemoration of the Armenian genocide, an issue that caused regular friction between Turkey and European Union nations.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Wednesday visited the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.

Turkey reiterated that it will not accept any fait accompli in the Eastern Mediterranean by Greece or Cyprus, ahead of a two-day working visit by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in the country, starting on Tuesday.

Turkey's presidential aide İbrahim Kalın and U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton have discussed the latest developments in Syria over the phone.

Turkish presidential spokesman İbrahim Kalın rejected the accusations of former U.S. special presidential envoy against Turkey.

Turkey and the United States will intensify talks this week to shape the latter's withdrawal from Syria amid differences over the status of the YPG and Turkey's preparations for a new military incursion into the eastern Euphrates.