Tayyip Erdogan

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's critics voiced outrage Monday night after an appearance he made during the Republican National Convention with six people who were released from custody in foreign countries with the help of his administration.During the segment, Trump told one of them, a pastor held in Turkey for…

David Bossie knew he’d fucked up as the word started to emerge from his mouth. The 2016 Trump campaign veteran, now representing Maryland in the Republican National Convention’s roll call of delegate votes Monday morning, was supposed to say that the Civil War border state had been a vital conduit…

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey has found 320 billion cubic metres of natural gas in the biggest ever discovery in the Black Sea, and hopes to begin production by 2023. he lira and benchmark share indices both gave up gains, though, possibly reflecting disappointment among investors over the size…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday ordered another ancient Orthodox church that became a mosque and then a popular Istanbul museum to be turned back into a place of Muslim worship. The decision to transform the Kariye Museum into a mosque came just a month after a similarly controversial…

Turkish police officers stand guard atop the Kariye (Chora) museum, the 11th-century church of St. Savior in Istanbul, Turkey, November 28, 2007. (Fatih Saribas/Reuters) Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed an order on Friday morning formally converting the Byzantine-era Chora Church in Istanbul into a mosque, several weeks after declaring…

It is by now almost a formality: In the Middle East, nothing either good or bad can transpire without Washington pointing to Tehran’s alleged hegemonic designs as the force behind it. So it was with the so-called peace deal announced last week between Israel and the United Arab Emirates; two…

ISTANBUL—The Turkish central bank kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged Thursday, in line with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s demand to keep it low, but leaving the emerging economy exposed to further capital flight and a potential currency crisis similar to the selloff that beset Turkey two years ago. The central…

Turkey is considering suspending diplomatic ties with the United Arab Emirates and withdrawing its ambassador over the Gulf state's accord to normalize ties with Israel, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday.The Turkish foreign ministry said history would never forgive the UAE's "hypocritical behavior" in agreeing such a deal, which recasts…

ANKARA (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that any attack on a Turkish ship exploring for oil and gas in disputed Mediterranean waters would incur a “high price” and suggested Turkey had already acted on that warning.Tensions in the eastern Mediterranean have risen sharply this week after Turkey…

Brigadier-General Semih Terzi was reported in 2016 to have been one of the organizers behind the failed coup against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Turkish army Victory Day 521 (photo credit: REUTERS/Umit Bektas) The former head of Turkey’s Special Forces Command Intelligence Division (OKK) ordered that one of the organizers…