Tayyip Erdogan

An Istanbul court has acquitted the Turkey representative for Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and two other campaigners on charges of making "terror propaganda" for Kurdish fighters, according to the media freedom group.   RSF representative Erol Onderoglu w…

Image copyrightAFPImage caption Sebnem Korur Fincanci, chairwoman of Turkey's Human Rights Foundation, as she walks free A Turkish court has acquitted two journalists and a human rights activist of terrorism charges. The three defendants had been accused …

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Donald Trump has the authority to waive possible U.S. sanctions on Turkey for its purchase of Russian air defense systems and that the U.S. president should find “middle ground” in the dispute, broadc…

xinjiang uighur pray Kevin Frayer/Getty 22 countries wrote a joint letter on Wednesday condemning Beijing's oppression of the Uighurs, a Muslim minority living in western China. China has installed an unparalleled 21st century police state…

22 countries have banded together to condemn China's oppression of its Muslim minority, in what activists called an " unprecedented move." But Muslim countries were conspicuously absent from the statement as the Islamic world continues to turn a blind eye. …

TURKEYS ECONOMY had just begun to show signs of recovery. High interest rates, a measure of calm following local elections earlier this year and attempts to rebuild a strained relationship with America had allowed the lira, which fell by 12% against the dolla…

Riyadh (AFP) - Diplomatic fallout over journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder appears to be slowing the flow of high-rolling Saudis to Turkey, as calls grow within the oil-rich kingdom to boycott the holiday magnet. The two Sunni Muslim powers have a longstandi…

Rachel Bitecofer, a political scientist at Christopher Newport University's Judy Ford Wason Center for Public Policy has developed a US election prediction model that performed very well in the 2018 midterms; she has since refined it based on the results of t…

Turkish prosecutors have ordered the arrest of more than 200 serving military personnel and several civilians over suspected links to a network blamed by Ankara for an attempted coup three years ago. Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Tuesday that…

Hours after unexpectedly forcing out the central banks governor, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made clear that he expects both the successor and the rest of the establishment to toe the governments line on monetary policy. The decision to can Murat …