Tayyip Erdogan

When the leaders of NATO nations gather in Lithuania this week, President Biden and his closest allies will endeavor to send Russia a forceful message: that the West is united against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine. But jeopardizing their show of cohesion will be some of the same…

ANKARA (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will visit Turkey on Friday for talks with President Tayyip Erdogan on the Black Sea grain deal and developments in the war in Ukraine, the state-run Anadolu Agency said on Thursday. Turkey and the United Nations brokered last year's deal, which allows for…

Published July 4, 2023 2:20am ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey will not lift its opposition to Sweden joining NATO unless it stops harboring groups Ankara considers to be terrorists, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday. Sweden and Finland applied for NATO membership last year, ditching long-held policies of military non-alignment after…

LAHORE: Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday spoke to the President of the Republic of Turkiye Recep Tayyip Erdogan and felicitated the government and the people of Turkiye on the auspicious occasion of Eidul Azha. Reciprocating the prime minister’s sentiments, President Erdogan extended warm Eid greetings to the people…

ActivismJune 28, 2023With his opposition defeated and demoralized, Turkey’s autocratic president now has a free hand. June 28, 2023 On the day he was reelected president for a third five-year term, Turkey’s resilient autocrat Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hopped on the roof of a campaign bus outside his Istanbul mansion and…

The Central Bank of Turkey nearly doubled its benchmark interest on Thursday, the first increase in two years, with the move reversing the country's monetary policy in a bid to fight spiralling inflation. The Monetary Policy Committee raised its policy rate, the one-week repo auction rate, by 650 basis points…

Turkey's new economic team is pivoting away from the unconventional policies promoted by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan - Copyright AFP Adem ALTAN Dmitry ZAKS Turkey was widely expected Thursday to pivot away from years of unconventional economics promoted by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and dramatically raise interest rates to fight…

Published On 27 May 202327 May 2023 Incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu have rallied their supporters on the final day of campaigning before Sunday’s decisive presidential election run-off. The two candidates are aiming to attract some 8 million voters who did not go to the polls…

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called assailant who attacked Turkish diplomatic building with crowbar a ‘terrorist’. Published On 26 May 202326 May 2023 Police in the United States have detained a man accused of attacking Turkey’s diplomatic headquarters in New York with a crowbar and breaking its windows, law enforcement…

Turkey reached the final stretch Friday of a bitter presidential campaign that has seen Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his secular rival exploit fears about migrants and Kurdish militants. Erdogan appears on course to extend two decades of his Islamic style of rule until 2028 in Sunday's runoff. His victory would…