Tayyip Erdogan

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday he does not think any problems will emerge in Syria’s Kobani after a Syrian army deployment is executed along the border, adding that Russia’s Vladimir Putin had shown a “positive approach.” …

PARIS (Reuters) - France’s president said on Sunday he had told Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Donald Trump in telephone calls that the Turkish offensive in Syria had to stop immediately and that it risked creating a humanitarian crisis. …

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday dismissed reports that Islamic State prisoners in northeastern Syria had escaped as a result of Turkey’s offensive in the region, saying they were “disinformation” aimed at provoking the West. Th…

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a phone call on Sunday to bring to an immediate halt the military operation in northern Syria, a German government spokeswoman said. “The Chancellor advoca…

It has often been noted that President Trump holds a vision of his job more befitting a Latin American caudillo than the leader of the worlds oldest democracy. His geopolitical idols trend toward the autocratic Kim Jong-un, Rodrigo Duterte, Mohammed bin Salma…

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would pull back from the border the few U.S. troops along the border in northeast Syria, clearing the way for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to launch his offensive against Kurdish forc…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dozens of President Donald Trump’s fellow Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives announced on Thursday that they would introduce legislation to impose sanctions against Turkey in response to its military offensive against Kurd…

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council will meet on Syria behind closed-doors on Thursday, diplomats said, after Turkey launched a military operation against Kurdish fighters in the northeast of the country. The discussion of the sit…

ANKARA (Reuters) - Two mortar shells hit the Turkish border town of Ceylanpinar, but there were no casualties, broadcaster NTV said on Wednesday shortly after Turkey and its Syrian rebel allies launched an offensive against Kurdish fighters in northeastern Sy…

ANKARA (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to Ankara was summoned to the foreign ministry on Wednesday to be briefed on Turkey’s military offensive into northeastern Syria, broadcaster CNN Turk said, minutes after Ankara launched its cross-border operation. Tur…