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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan appointed on Thursday a new communications director, Burhanettin Duran, a deputy foreign ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reiterated his opposition to interest rates while endorsing the country’s orthodox economic program, which relies on high borrowing costs to curb inflation.
Turkish high-schoolers and university students are too young to remember Turkey before Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in power since 2003. But when police came for the Turkish president’s top opponent ...
The international community does not seem poised to prevent Erdogan from setting Turkey on the path to autocracy. Nevertheless, he might still fail.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan gives a speech in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Feb. 10. Photo: fazry ismail/Shutterstock ...
Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been running Turkey for 22 years, and has spent much of that time eroding its democracy. His government controls the courts, the security apparatus and almost all the ...
If Democrats’ relentless lawfare against Donald Trump had succeeded, the United States would be looking more like Turkey, where President Recep Tayyip Erdogan just jailed his chief political foe ...
More than 1,000 people have been detained amid protests over the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a key opponent of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Hundreds of people protested outside an Istanbul courthouse Saturday, calling for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to resign, as Turkey entered its fourth day of civil unrest. Violent clashes ...
Opponents say President Recep Tayyip Erdogan manipulates the courts and the media to tighten his grip on power, and now is trying to prevent a top contender from running for president.
LONDON, March 19 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Tayyip Erdogan’s anti-democratic tendencies are hardly a secret. It may seem surprising then that the detention of a key political rival to the Turkish ...
The moves against Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and dozens of others could help extend President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s two decades in power.