Tayyip Erdogan

Imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, has called on pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) to "remain neutral" in Istanbul's mayoral elections, defying Kurdish support for the opposition candidate. "Abdullah Ocalan, in…

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) said on Friday its strategy of supporting the opposition in the Istanbul mayoral election has not changed despite a last-minute call from jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan for it to be …

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Lawyers for jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan confirmed on Friday that he had called on the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) to remain neutral ahead of Sunday’s Istanbul election re-run. Ocalan’s lawyers issued a…

Erdogan's party fights to retake Istanbul in mayoral re-run vote Istanbul will vote for a mayor for the second time in three months on June 23 as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's party fights to win back the city after a shock defeat in March. The ruling J…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that the Egyptian government should be tried in international courts for the death of former President Mohamed Morsi. Morsi, a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood group which is now banned in Egypt, died o…

Details about the death of former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi have been conspicuously absent from news reports. Despite being the first democratically elected Egyptian president, news outlets have scrubbed that information from stories of his demise in w…

ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has gone on the warpath against the main opposition days ahead of a re-run of a mayoral vote in Istanbul, scrapping plans to avoid divisive rhetoric that some officials in his ruling AK Party believ…

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday vowed to make an effort to ensure the Egyptian government is tried in international courts for the death of former president Mohamed Mursi, who suffered a fatal heart attack in a Cairo court e…

Almost two weeks after Ekrem Imamoglus shock victory in Istanbuls mayoral election in March, which he narrowly won by some 13,000 votes, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) had still not conceded defeat. So Imamoglu turned to the power of Turkeys s…

Erdogan Says Turkey Will Receive Russian S-400 Defence System 'Very Soon' - Report