Tayyip Erdogan

ISTANBUL—President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that the city’s sixth-century Hagia Sophia, which became a symbol of secularism in modern Turkey when it was converted into a museum in the 1930s, would reopen to Muslim prayer as a full-fledged mosque later this month, a shift opposed by the U.S. and…

AL-MUKALLA: Several high-ranking Houthi military commanders were killed and numerous others injured when Arab coalition forces bombed a convoy in northern Yemen, military officials said on Monday. Rabia Al-Qurashi, Yemeni army spokesman in Jouf province, told Arab News that militia chiefs, including Houthi minister of defense Mohammed Al-Atefi, were visiting…

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the current President of Turkey, took the opportunity to denigrate the LGBTQI community of Turkey whilst defending similarly homophobic remarks made by the head of the Turkish Red Crescent at the end of June. Erdogan’s speech was delivered to the majority-Muslim nation after he held a meeting…

ANKARA (Reuters) - Criticism of Turkey over the possible conversion of Istanbul's landmark Hagia Sophia monument from a museum to a mosque "is an attack on Turkey's sovereignty", President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday.Erdogan has proposed restoring the mosque status of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, a building at the…

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan talks to media following the Friday prayers in Istanbul, Turkey, July 3, 2020. Murat Cetinmuhurdar/Turkish Presidential Press Office/Handout via REUTERSANKARA (Reuters) - Criticism of Turkey over the possible conversion of Istanbul’s landmark Hagia Sophia monument from a museum to a mosque “is an attack on Turkey’s…

A deadly explosion at a fireworks factory in northwest Turkey on Friday has killed four people and wounded at least 94 others, Turkey's health minister said. Fahrettin Koca added that rescue teams were working to recover at least 45 people trapped under the factory's rubble.Video posted on social media showed…

BEIRUT: After the French entered Lebanon in 1920 after the declaration of the State of Greater Lebanon, they reconfigured the capital Beirut to conform to the new political order. Among the most visible transformations was the introduction of identity cards for residents, a move that sought to establish a Lebanese…

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticized the EU over its restrictive treatment of the country after the bloc kept its coronavirus-related travel ban in place. Erdogan expressed his concerns over what he said was the EU’s political stance toward the country while addressing members of Turkey’s ruling party AK on…

Russian President Vladimir Putin, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Iran’s Hassan Rouhani will discuss the conflict in Syria during a video conference on Wednesday, the Kremlin has said.The three countries held talks in Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana (now called Nur-Sultan) in 2018, aimed at settling the situation in Syria. The previous…

ATHENS/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan discussed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic by phone on Friday, Athens and Ankara said - rare such contact for two neighbours at odds over a range of issues. Mitsotakis and Erdogan addressed ways of handling the…