Tayyip Erdogan

Buhari commiserated with the families in the City of Izmir, Turkey and Greek islands of Samos and Greece who lost their loved ones. He also expressed sympathy with the government and people of the two countries, as they made efforts to save lives, while recovering from the shock of the…

PARIS — The cartoon aimed to provoke — and it worked.A front-page illustration published by the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday showing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lounging in his underwear, pulling up the skirt of a woman wearing a hijab to reveal her bottom, has escalated an…

Updated 2 weeks ago · Published on 28 Oct 2020 10:43PM · Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he has not seen the Charlie Hebdo drawing as he does not want to 'give credit to such immoral publications'. – EPA pic, October 28, 2020. TURKISH President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today…

Last Updated: 28th October, 2020 17:49 IST Turkish officials on Wednesday railed against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo over its cover-page cartoon mocking Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and accused it of sowing "the seeds of hatred." Turkish officials on Wednesday railed against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo over its…

ANKARA — Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday Turkey had the legitimate right to act again if militants are not cleared from its border with Syria, where it has carried out several incursions in the last four years.“If the terrorists here are not cleared as we were promised, we…

France on Saturday said it was recalling its envoy to Turkey for consultations after comments by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggesting French counterpart Emmanuel Macron needed a mental health check-up that Paris condemned as unacceptable. France and its NATO ally are at loggerheads over a range of issues including…

French President Emmanuel Macron (L) with his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan at the Elysee Palace in Paris in 2018. Photo: AFP “What is the problem of this person called Macron with Muslims and Islam? Macron needs treatment on a mental level,” Turkish President says Macron’s comments on ‘Islamist separatism’ in…

Mesut Ozil has called out Arsenal’s lack of loyalty after he was left out of the club’s 25-man Premier League squad. The German playmaker, 32, signed for the Gunners for a then club record £42.4m deal in 2013. He has won three FA Cup winners’ medals during his time at the…

ISTANBUL — Turkey has raised the estimated reserves in a gas field off its Black Sea coast to 405 billion cubic meters after finding an additional 85 billion cubic meters, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday.Erdogan said in August the field contained 320 billion cubic meters of gas, making it…

Last Monday evening, President Donald Trump made a video appearance on the White House’s Truman Balcony, solid as a statue, his jaw jutting, his heavyset figure framed by American flags. He had just returned from the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he had been treated for a case…