Tayyip Erdogan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is slated to meet one-on-one with at least eight world leaders on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, later this week, a senior U.S. administration official said on Monday. Trump will hold talk…

4. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan faces election recriminations. The defeat of his candidate in the mayoral race in Istanbul, his hometown, was the biggest loss of his political career, and means that the opposition now controls five of the six most …

Turkish opposition candidate Ekrem Imamoglu won a landslide victory in Istanbul’s re-run mayoral elections June 23, inflicting a heavy defeat on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose rise to power began with winning the city’s mayorship in 1994 and who has sa…

THIS TIME around, there was no room for doubt. In late March Ekrem Imamoglu had won the Istanbul mayoral election by a fraction of a percentage point. On June 23rd he won the re-run by a landslide. Mr Imamoglus victory in the rerun was the best showing for a…

Turkey's ruling party is set to lose control of Istanbul after a re-run of the mayoral election, initial results show. The candidate for the main opposition party, Ekrem Imamoglu, has a commanding lead with more than 90% of votes counted. He won a surprise …

A son of the late former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has accused incumbent President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and a number of other officials of "killing" his father. Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected president who was arrested after being overthr…

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…