Tayyip Erdogan

Career Foreign Service officer George Kent and top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine William Taylor are sworn in to testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday, Nov. 13. | J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo WE ARE ABOUT THREE HOURS into the first open impe…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. | Laszlo Balogh/Getty Images Republican senators plan to urge Turkish President Reycep Erdogan to change his mind about buying Russian missiles and to stick up for U.S. Kurdish allies in an unusual meeting at the White…

Impeachment inquiry heats up as public hearings begin The House impeachment inquiry into enters a new and crucial phase Wednesday with the start of public hearings into President Donald Trump's dealings with Ukraine. Democrats suggest that Trump's demand tha…

ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey’s military incursion in Syria has given President Tayyip Erdogan a bump in opinion polls and exposed potential cracks in an informal political alliance that claimed surprise victories over his ruling party in local elections…

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday he would tell President Donald Trump that the United States has not fulfilled its agreement last month to remove the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia from a region along Turkey’s border. It is “i…

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan and Russia’s Vladimir Putin discussed Turkey’s military offensive in Syria in a phone call on Saturday, Turkey’s presidency said. Turkey launched its cross-border offensive one month ago, saying it aimed to driv…

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey will have to open the doors to Europe for Syrian refugees unless the European Union provides Ankara with enough support, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday, adding that Turkey could not carry that burden alone. Turkey aims t…

French President Emmanuel Macron has slammed US President Donald Trump for unilaterally withdrawing from Syria — a decision that has upended power structures in the Middle East — without even telling his NATO allies. "You have no co-ordination whatsoever of …

Istanbul (AFP) - The wife of slain Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi revealed "a lot of information" about the jihadist group's "inner workings" after she was captured last year, a Turkish official said. The official said that Baghdadi's spouse ident…

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday the United States was not fulfilling its pledge to remove a Kurdish militia from a Syrian border region and he will raise the issue when he meets President Donald Trump next week. A mont…