Tayyip Erdogan

After twenty years of running his country, Recep Tayyip Erdogan was hardly going to change tack now. Cheered vociferously by thousands of his supporters, the President marked the last day of campaigning by firing tirades at his critics, his opponents and the West. Erdogan knows that this election, which pitches…

Turkey will hold a runoff election on May 28 after an inconclusive first round Sunday saw President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the lead — but not over 50 percent, the required threshold to win. The runoff could decide Erdogan’s political future; his decades in power have reshaped Turkey’s politics and…

ANKARA —  With less than 40 hours to go until Turkey’s closest elections in its modern history, incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his top rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu are wrapping up their campaigns, and recent polls gave the lead to the main opposition leader.  Kilicdaroglu is streaking ahead of Erdogan,…

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Podcasts Could Turkey’s strongman president really lose this weekend’s election? Are we failing women who give birth in prison? And why do depictions of Cleopatra touch a racial nerve?Olly Mann and The Week delve behind the headlines and debate what really matters from the past seven days. With Julia O’Driscoll, Harriet Marsden…

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Istanbul CNN  —  Turkish presidential candidate Muharrem Ince has pulled out of the race, in a potential boost to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s rival, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, ahead of Sunday’s vote. Polls showed that Ince was trailing a distant third, and some opposition figures feared he would split the anti-Erdogan vote.…

Image source, Getty Images Image caption, First-time voters make up 8% of the Turkish electorate and their votes will be decisive By Selin Girit BBC World Service in Istanbul "If Recep Tayyip Erdogan wins again, life will be a nightmare for all of us," said Perit, a 23-year-old Istanbul student.…

Published by Reuters ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan accused the opposition of being “pro-LGBT” at a rally in Istanbul on Sunday, as he stepped up his rhetoric against his opponents a week before what is expected to be a tight election. E…Read More

Exhausted by crackdowns in Turkey's Kurdish heartland, Ali is backing the main rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in elections next Sunday -- though his faith in the presidential hopeful is not great. "It's time for a change," the 50-year-old told AFP in Diyarbakir, the Kurds' unofficial capital in southeast…