Tayyip Erdogan

Turkey will never bow to US sanctions over its agreement to purchase Russian S-400 defence systems, Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay said on Sunday in reference to a deal that has strained ties between the NATO allies. Washington has said the S-400s could c…

Istanbul (AFP) - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday fiercely denounced Israel for the bombing of a building housing Turkey's state news agency Anadolu in Gaza. "We strongly condemn Israel's attack against Anadolu Agencys office in Gaza," Erdogan said…

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday (May 3) condemned deadly attacks in places of worship as he inaugurated the country's largest mosque, Camlica in Istanbul. Erdogan said people behind bombings that targeted mosques and churches were the "common enem…

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan signaled on Saturday he favors a re-run of a mayoral election in Istanbul which resulted in victory for the candidate of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP). Erdogan’s ruling AK Party, whic…

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan inaugurated Turkeys largest and newest mosque on Friday. Construction on the Camlica Mosque Complex began in 2013 and has a capacity of 63,000 worshippers. The previous Turkish record holder in capacity was a mosque in the sout…

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is working to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization, a move that would bring sanctions against one of the Arab world’s oldest and most influential Islamist movements. The Brothe…

During Game 2 of the Trail Blazers' second-round series against the Nuggets, a Denver fan told Enes Kanter, "Go back to Turkey, oh wait, you can't," according to ESPN.com's Royce Young. Kanter called the comment "hurtful" when he responded on Twitter Thursda…

Everyone knows that NBA Twitter is already one of the weirder parts of the internet but not many of us expected the best basketball league in the world to be complicit in overt political censorship. @NBATurkiye, the NBAs official Turkish news account, tried …

ACENTRAL BANKS words have power. Three of them (whatever it takes) calmed the euro areas debt panic in 2012. Another few (the Federal Reserve mulling a step down in our pace of purchases) started the taper tantrum that upset emerging markets in 2013. What is…

Turkey's largest annual defence show has become a political balancing act, with the United States unhappy about the country's purchase of Russian weapons. But President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the ongoing war in Syria means he needs to take all available m…