Tayyip Erdogan

The White House says the U.S. won't allow Turkey to buy the new Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighter jet, after Turkey defied its NATO allies by acquiring a sophisticated Russian missile defense system. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images Five days after…

(IRBIL, Iraq) Unknown gunmen opened fire inside a Turkish-owned restaurant in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil on Wednesday, killing at least one Turkish diplomat stationed in Ankara's consulate and one Iraqi civilian, Turkish officials and Kurdish security f…

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…