• Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on his countrymen on Friday to abandon alcoholic drinks in favor of ayran - a type of yogurt popular in the region, Turkish media reported. (ynetnews.com)
  • ISTANBUL - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has big plans. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Recep Tayyip Erdogan is the Prime Minister of Turkey. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan hinted Thursday that Israel is responsible for the release of tapes revealing secret talks between Ankara's intelligence officials and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). (ynetnews.com)
  • President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that Turkey's currency crisis is the result of an "attack" on his country's economy. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's president, has sparked a diplomatic confrontation with Australia and New Zealand over the Christchurch massacre by threatening that anti-Muslim Westerners would be sent home "in coffins" like those killed the Battle of Gallipoli. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • With Necmettin Erbakan of the Welfare Party barred from politics, other faces such as Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a former member of the Welfare Party, started gaining popular support. (com.pk)
  • As Tayyip Erdogan chose to contest the presidential election for a third consecutive term, his party, the AKP, formed an alliance (called People's Alliance) with the MHP, the YRP and the BBP, which contested against Kemal Kilicdaroglu-led Nation Alliance that comprised major opposition parties, namely the Republican People's Party (CHP), as well as right-wing Iyi Party, liberal-right's Democracy and Progress (DEVA) Party and the centre-right Gelecek Party. (com.pk)
  • Turkey is planning to hold a summit with France, Germany, and Russia in early September to discuss the Syrian conflict and other regional issues, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. (rferl.org)
  • Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has suffered his worst electoral setback, with his ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, losing control of the capital, Ankara, and seemingly set to lose Istanbul following this past Sunday's local elections. (voanews.com)
  • Turkey's Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has engineered the path to his virtual one-man rule of Turkey. (frontpagemag.com)
  • Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, accompanied by his wife Emine Erdogan, addresses his supporters following early poll results for the second round of the presidential election in Istanbul, Sunday. (gulf-times.com)
  • Supporters of Turkish President wave a flag depicting Recep Tayyip Erdogan in front of AK Party's headquarter in Istanbul on the day of the Presidential runoff vote in Istanbul. (gulf-times.com)
  • Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared victory Sunday in a historic runoff vote that posed the biggest challenge to his 20 years of transformative but divisive rule. (gulf-times.com)
  • The 10-month hiatus in a face-to-face interaction between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at their Sochi meeting on 4 September was unnatural, given the torrent of vital geopolitical events that have transpired in the interim. (bibliotecapleyades.net)
  • The decision by some NATO countries to send tanks to Ukraine is a high-risk move that probably won't help end the conflict, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday. (rt.com)
  • ISTANBUL (Reuters) -For more than two decades, President Tayyip Erdogan has been the lord of all elections in Turkey. (yahoo.com)
  • Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has offered condolences to descendants of the victims of the mass killing of up to 1.5 million Armenians during World War I by Ottoman forces. (rferl.org)
  • As the prime minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, arrived in Baghdad to meet with Iraqi leaders, at least 14 Iraqis were killed and 52 more were wounded in attacks there and across Iraq. (antiwar.com)
  • Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan is seen amid his supporters at the Ataturk Airport in Istanbul, Turkey. (christiantoday.com)
  • Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was re-elected on Sunday in the second round of the presidential election. (allafrica.com)
  • After a tireless campaign on behalf of the governing AK (Justice and Development) Party and wall-to-wall tv coverage, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan finally got his comeuppance when the AKP only received 41 percent of the votes instead of a hoped for 50 percent. (frontpagemag.com)
  • AMMAN - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will pay an official visit to the Kingdom Monday, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported. (jordantimes.com)
  • ANKARA - President Tayyip Erdogan is considering appointing Hafize Gaye Erkan, a senior finance executive in the United States, as governor of Turkey's central bank, according to two senior officials with knowledge of the matter. (zawya.com)
  • President Recep Tayyip Erdogan likes to portray himself as a defender of all Muslims, but he is treading carefully in his relations with Beijing. (worldcrunch.com)
  • Turkish presidential candidate Muharrem Ince has pulled out of the race, in a potential boost to the main opposition candidate's chances of beating President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Sunday's vote . (cnn.com)
  • Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday likened a Dutch ban on his foreign minister's visit to Nazism, in a dramatic escalation of a row over campaign events abroad for Turkey's high stakes referendum. (worldbulletin.net)
  • Popular Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his AKP have triumphed for the third time in a row in national elections, ensuring Erdogan will remain in power for four more years while further strengthening democratic foundations in a Turkey that for decades saw military coups, good-old-boy networks and corruption as the order of the day. (opednews.com)
  • Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan congratulated US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on their victory in the 2020 presidential election. (arabnews.com)
  • ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday congratulated Joe Biden on his victory over Donald Trump in the US presidential election, urging closer ties between the two NATO allies. (arabnews.com)
  • During the ceremony held at Beştepe Nation's Convention and Culture Center, President of the Republic of Türkiye Recep Tayyip Erdogan awarded the Medical service Colonel Niyamaddin Aghamaliyev with the State Medal of Supreme Sacrifice of the Republic of Türkiye. (news.az)
  • In a meeting in the Oval Office, President Barack Obama and TurkishPrime Minister Tayyip Erdogan discussed a wide range of topics fromenergy to Armenia-Turkey relations. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is a thoroughgoing Muslim Brotherhood adherent, and has been since he first entered politics. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Jamal Khashoggi died as a result of a brutal premeditated murder, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday, in a highly anticipated speech in which he soundly rejected Saudi Arabia's claim that the journalist was killed accidentally. (cnn.com)
  • Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in New York City, September 19, 2016. (newsweek.com)
  • President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday called on Turkish voters in Europe to defy the "grandchildren of Nazism" and back a referendum this month on changing the constitution, comments likely to cause further ire in Europe. (newsweek.com)
  • Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned that The Netherlands would face more retaliation from Ankara in a spiralling diplomatic crisis. (arabnews.com)
  • ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned that the Netherlands would face more retaliation from Ankara in a spiralling diplomatic crisis, as he made a new jibe against the country over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. (arabnews.com)
  • But Yasin Aktay, who advises President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and was a friend of Khashoggi's, told Hurriyet newspaper that the corpse was disposed of by dismembering and dissolving it. (irishtimes.com)
  • Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday criticized Austrian Prime Minister Sebastian Kurz for its government's decision to shut down seven mosques and expel 40 imams, APA reports quoting AA. (apa.az)
  • Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday aired deep differences over the war between Israel and Hamas as the Turkish leader made a brief and tensely anticipated visit to Berlin. (yahoo.com)
  • Leaving behind the recent constitutional referendum, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan can now take a deep sigh of relief and deliberate on what kind of strategy he will adopt for the next presidential election, which will be his next political test. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • We will be in the operation and we will be at the table," Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated in a televised speech on Monday. (independent.co.uk)
  • On 24 February 2020, the Official Gazette of Turkey published the Presidential Order issued by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, banning the importation of electronic cigarettes and related products in the country. (who.int)
  • Following fatalities suffered by Turkey due to an attack by Syrian forces in Ildib, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced his inability to further guard the EU-Turkey borders. (lu.se)
  • Born on February 26, 1954 in the Kasimpasa neighborhood of Istanbul, Turkey , Erdogan spent the bulk of his youth in the Rize Province, where his father was part of the Turkish Coast Guard. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • After the 1980 military coup in Turkey, Erdogan joined the Welfare Party. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • In terms of the Turkish economy, the World Bank has lauded Erdogan for the reforms he instituted that helped bring Turkey back to a more economically stable status. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • In a prerecorded address to the Turkish people ahead of the start of the four-day holiday, Erdogan said the aim of those he blamed for Turkey's currency crisis was to bring "Turkey and its people to their knees. (globalsecurity.org)
  • The White House is looking for ways to remove an enemy of Turkish President Recep Erdogan from the U.S. in order to placate Turkey over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to two senior U.S. officials and two other people briefed on the requests. (msnbc.com)
  • Erdogan touted the slim 51.4% majority yes vote on the referendum as an "historic decision" for Turkey. (frontpagemag.com)
  • Basically, Russia's relations with Turkey are fortified by the warm personal equations between Putin and Erdogan, and both leaders are consummate realists with shared interests and a keenness to challenge Western dominance in regional politics. (bibliotecapleyades.net)
  • In his opening remarks, Putin put Erdogan at ease by reassuring him upfront that the Russian offer to create a global 'energy hub' in Turkey is very much in the cards and will materialize soon. (bibliotecapleyades.net)
  • The most influential leader since Mustafa Kemal Ataturk founded modern Turkey a century ago, Erdogan has amassed power around an executive presidency, muzzled dissent, jailed critics and opponents and squeezed the media, judiciary and the economy, firing the last three central bank governors in two years. (yahoo.com)
  • A successful overthrow of Erdogan, who has ruled Turkey since 2003, would have marked one of the biggest shifts in the Middle East in years, transforming a major US ally while war rages on its border. (christiantoday.com)
  • In an interview given to the Turkish daily BirGün in March last year, Abdüllatif Sener, a former AKP deputy and founder of the AK Party, said he thought Erdogan would even be prepared to drag Turkey into a civil war. (frontpagemag.com)
  • The Israelis and the CIA had conned Erdogan into believing he could expand Turkey and gain a whole new empire. (veteranstoday.com)
  • This delusion of empire that was driving Erdogan as a Khazarian Mafia (KM) tool had led to a checkmate with the Russian Federation and a game of chess that Turkey had zero chance of winning in the long run. (veteranstoday.com)
  • Turkey's military High Command has finally understood that to allow Erdogan to continue in this empire-building strategy using ISIS was suicidal for Turkey. (veteranstoday.com)
  • Ban our foreign minister from flying however much you like, but from now on let's see how your flights will land in Turkey," Erdogan said. (worldbulletin.net)
  • Denouncing Erdogan as a brutal dictator, he declared "I am not used to receiving lectures about morality from a leader who bombs Kurdish villagers in his native Turkey, who jails journalists, who helps Iran get around international sanctions, and who helps terrorists, including in Gaza, kill innocent people. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Erdogan questioned whether Riyadh was able to carry out an independent investigation in to the death of the Washington Post journalist, and he demanded that the 18 suspects arrested by authorities in Saudi Arabia be extradited to Turkey to stand trial in Istanbul. (cnn.com)
  • But Erdogan indicated that Turkey would not accept any attempt to pin the blame for the killing on rogue elements of the Saudi intelligence and security services. (cnn.com)
  • Erdogan last month said Turkey would reevaluate its relationship with the bloc, and may even hold a second referendum on whether to continue accession talks. (newsweek.com)
  • Turkey abandoned capital punishment more than a decade ago as part of its bid to join the European Union, but Erdogan has repeatedly told crowds calling for it following the July 15 failed coup that he would approve its restoration if parliament passed it. (newsweek.com)
  • Erdogan said Turkey would respond to the decision of expelling imams as well. (apa.az)
  • In a sign that Turkey is trying to make some amends with Iraq, Turkish news reported on Monday that a diplomatic delegation is en route to Baghdad to discuss the offensive. (independent.co.uk)
  • Israel recalled its diplomats from Turkey last month after Erdogan accused Israel of committing war crimes. (yahoo.com)
  • Remarks have been made by the Turkish President Erdogan that I consider highly offensive to Australians, and highly reckless in this very sensitive environment," Mr Morrison said. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Last week a well-known Turkish whistleblower, Fuat Avni, claimed that President Erdogan had ordered steps to be taken to create chaos in southeastern Anatolia to force the PKK to resume violence as part of a strategy to weaken support for the HDP. (frontpagemag.com)
  • Whatever the truth of this, there is no doubt that the failure to form a viable coalition government together with a discredited HDP can provide a convincing platform for an AKP comeback - of course, under the tutelage of President Erdogan. (frontpagemag.com)
  • It would be unwise to underestimate the lengths President Erdogan is prepared to go to cling to power. (frontpagemag.com)
  • Addressing a crowd of thousands of flag-waving supporters at the airport later, Erdogan said the government remained at the helm, although disturbances continued in Ankara. (christiantoday.com)
  • Speaking at a rally in Ankara, Erdogan said he wished Ince had not withdrawn, adding that it was "impossible to understand why" he did. (cnn.com)
  • Other issues standing between Ankara and Washington include Turkey's purchase of a high-tech Russian missile defense system, and US refusal to extradite a Muslim cleric Erdogan blames for staging a failed 2016 coup. (arabnews.com)
  • The information obtained so far and the evidence found shows that Khashoggi was murdered in a ferocious manner," Erdogan told lawmakers in the Turkish capital, Ankara. (cnn.com)
  • In an uncompromising speech, Erdogan said a "yes" vote in an April 16 referendum on expanding his powers would be the best response to Turkey's "enemies" in a dispute that risks wrecking the entire Ankara-Brussels relationship. (arabnews.com)
  • In his speech Mr Erdogan indicated that US officials had spoken with the Turkish military, urging Ankara not to let the infighting compromise the success of the offensive. (independent.co.uk)
  • Turkish prosecutors claim Brunson had ties with the U.S.-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Erdogan has accused of orchestrating Turkey's failed 2016 military coup. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Erdogan sent a letter of apology to Putin on June 27, 2016 expressing regrets for the shoot-down of a Russian aircraft. (veteranstoday.com)
  • Erdogan was speaking at a conference regarding alcohol policy in Istanbul , where he said alcoholic drinks were promoted as healthy in the first years following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire . (ynetnews.com)
  • From 1994 until 1998 Erdogan served as Mayor of Istanbul. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • Erdogan declared that he instructed Fidan and the former MIT head Emre Taner to meet with the PKK's expelled leader Abdullah Ocalan, currently serving a life sentence in a prison on an island near Istanbul. (ynetnews.com)
  • In comments published by Turkish media on July 29, Erdogan said that the meeting would take place in Istanbul on September 7. (rferl.org)
  • In 1994, Erdogan rose from political obscurity to dominate Turkish politics after narrowly winning the Istanbul mayorship in a surprise victory as a member of a then-fringe Islamist party. (voanews.com)
  • We will be ruling the country for the coming five years," Erdogan told his cheering supporters from atop a bus in his home district in Istanbul. (gulf-times.com)
  • Erdogan came to power on the back of an economic crisis and a disastrous earthquake and will leave the same way,' Gursel said, referring to the spiralling inflation of the 1990s following a massive 1999 quake near Istanbul. (yahoo.com)
  • Erdogan, who had been holidaying on the southwest coast when the coup was launched, flew into Istanbul before dawn on Saturday and was shown on TV outside Ataturk Airport. (christiantoday.com)
  • As the election day became closer, all votes were converging on (Erdogan and Kilicdaroglu and) Ince's votes were falling," Murat Somer, a political science professor at Koc University in Istanbul, told CNN, noting that Ince's candidacy would have likely led to a second round of elections. (cnn.com)
  • Among the new details revealed by Erdogan was an allegation that, on the day before Khashoggi was killed, a team of consular staff carried out a reconnaissance mission in a forest on the outskirts of Istanbul, and at Yalova, a city about a 55-mile (90-kilometer) drive south. (cnn.com)
  • Erdogan also alleged that, hours before Khashoggi arrived for an appointment at the Istanbul consulate on October 2 to obtain paperwork to marry his fiancee, security cameras in the building were disconnected. (cnn.com)
  • I am afraid that the steps taken by the Austrian prime minister would bring the world closer to a crusader-crescent war,' said Erdogan during an iftar dinner organized in Istanbul. (apa.az)
  • With the help of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Erdogan recently inaugurated construction of Turkey's first nuclear power plant. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Earlier this week, Erdogan met with Russia's President Vladimir Putin in South Africa, where the Russian leader attended a summit of BRICS countries on July 27. (rferl.org)
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a telegram of congratulations to his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayip Erdogan on the occasion of the 95th anniversary of the Turkish Republic. (worldbulletin.net)
  • Asked to comment on a possible challenge to the result by Erdogan, a presidency official told Reuters that in the event of irregularities, appeals would be made to the election board, something he said the main CHP opposition party could also do. (yahoo.com)
  • The two sources told Reuters she is set to meet Erdogan soon to discuss the possible role. (zawya.com)
  • Turkish officials have been alarmed by an interview Biden gave to The New York Times in December in which he called Erdogan an "autocrat. (arabnews.com)
  • Biden criticized the Turkish leader's policies toward the Kurds and said Washington needed to "embolden" his rivals to allow them "to take on and defeat Erdogan. (arabnews.com)
  • Ahead of a referendum to change Turkey's constitution in 2017, Mr Erdogan accused Dutch and German ministers of being Nazis. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Reprising his anti-European remarks during the referendum campaign, Erdogan told supporters that he had been "attacked" by nations with the "crusader mentality. (frontpagemag.com)
  • As if on cue, Erdogan supporters assaulted some Turks who dared to protest what the opponents considered to be a fraudulent referendum vote, leading towards a dictatorship. (frontpagemag.com)
  • Erdogan has repeatedly lashed out at European countries, including Germany and the Netherlands, in the run up to a referendum to increase presidential powers. (newsweek.com)
  • Erdogan has repeatedly lashed out at European countries, including Germany and the Netherlands, in campaigning for the referendum, accusing them of "Nazi-like" tactics for banning his ministers from speaking to rallies of Turkish voters abroad. (newsweek.com)
  • While Erdoğan is doing this research, he will first have to make an objective and calm analysis of the April 16 referendum. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • In the referendum, Erdoğan also received some degree of support from Kurds who are otherwise close to the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • Erdogan again became president after defeating his political rivals in 2018. (com.pk)
  • The 59-year-old ran for president in 2018 but lost against Erdogan. (cnn.com)
  • But as the country's economy grows increasingly dependent on Beijing, Erdogan is holding his tongue about human rights abuses - and he is not alone. (worldcrunch.com)
  • Erdogan made the remarks in an August 20 speech ahead of the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday as a dispute worsens with Washington over Turkey's continued detention of an American pastor and its pledge to buy Russian S-400 missile systems. (globalsecurity.org)
  • His comments were met with fury in Australia, where Scott Morrison, the prime minister, summoned Turkey's ambassador and demanded that Mr Erdogan retract his remarks. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Mr Erdogan has made a habit of provoking fights with foreign governments ahead of elections as a way of whipping up his base of nationalist voters. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Before the elections, in an appeal to the nationalist vote, Erdogan accused opposition CHP and HDP deputies of being "open supporters of terror," and in a volte-face declared "There is no Kurdish question. (frontpagemag.com)
  • Türkiye will continue the talks with both Russia and Ukraine in an effort to find a negotiated settlement, Erdogan added. (rt.com)
  • Erdogan is scheduled to hold talks with His Majesty King Abdullah on the ways to enhance cooperation between the two countries and the recent regional developments. (jordantimes.com)
  • It's no secret that we have, in parts, very different views on the current conflict," Scholz said at a brief news conference alongside Erdogan before their talks. (yahoo.com)
  • Kilicdaroglu pushed Erdogan into Turkiye's first runoff on May 14 and narrowed the margin further in the second round. (gulf-times.com)
  • Polls suggest Kilicdaroglu has an edge but that Erdogan could yet prevail given his strong support base in the devout working-class Anatolian heartland. (yahoo.com)
  • Ince had low polling numbers and some opposition figures feared he would split the anti-Erdogan vote, which had coalesced around the president's principal rival, Kemal Kilicdaroglu. (cnn.com)
  • He added that while Ince may stop short of endorsing the Kilicdaroglu, the general expectation is that his backers wanted to see an end to Erdogan so will vote for the CHP leader. (cnn.com)
  • The election is expected to be a close race between Erdogan and Kilicdaroglu, with pollsters predicting record voter turnouts. (cnn.com)
  • Erdogan is expected to run for the newly empowered presidential office, which he could hold onto for at least two terms through 2029. (frontpagemag.com)
  • Erdogan is counting on the support of expatriates in Europe, including the 1.4 million Turks eligible to vote in Germany, to pass constitutional changes that would give him sweeping presidential powers. (newsweek.com)
  • Upon the conclusion of the 2015 NPL Victoria season, in which Hume City had a strong FFA Cup run, going down in the semi-finals to A-League side Melbourne Victory, Erdogan dropped three divisions down the Victorian football league ladder to sign with Geelong SC. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the full flush of his election victory, Erdogan made certain efforts to mend fences with the west, signaling a willingness to agree to Sweden's induction into NATO and showing solidarity with Ukraine. (bibliotecapleyades.net)
  • We are not approving the use of this recording as a political tool by the opposition," Erdogan said. (ynetnews.com)
  • Opposition parties have criticized Guven, an Erdogan appointee, for being too close to the AKP in previous voting controversies. (voanews.com)
  • In his second and most recent terms in office, the Turkish government under Erdogan has largely shifted toward a more authoritarian country in terms of decreasing press freedoms, Kurdish minority rights and those of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender people, as well as other freedoms such as of the internet and speech. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • There is a second option for Erdoğan: Kurdish votes. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • However, especially if he has to run the second round, Erdoğan may opt for a third alternative, such as seeking partial gains from both MHP voters and conservative Kurdish voters. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • Israel's botched military intervention, and the consequent death of nine of the militants, provided Erdogan with a political and diplomatic bonus he could scarcely have hoped for. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Erdogan, whose Islamist-rooted ideology lies deeply at odds with supporters of modern Turkey's secular principles, said the plotters had tried to attack him in the resort town of Marmaris. (christiantoday.com)
  • from harming this country's honor and pride," Erdogan told a packed crowd of flag-waving supporters in the Black Sea city of Rize, where his family comes from. (newsweek.com)
  • Under Turkey's voting system, a winner can be selected by gaining more than 50% of the ballots cast or, if no candidate hits that score, by winning a runoff, which is a likely scenario with polls showing Erdogan and his opponent short of a majority. (yahoo.com)
  • Erdoğan used these refugees and migrants as a bargaining chip to renegotiate the terms of his agreement with the EU. (lu.se)
  • Mr Erdogan earlier threatened that if "If New Zealand fails to hold the attacker accountable, one way or another we will hold him to account. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Mr Erdogan had already been sharply rebuked by New Zealand for his comments and for using gruesome video shot by the Christchurch mosque gunman as an election campaign prop. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Erdogan added that 'we wish that the Armenians who lost their lives in the context of the early 20th century rest in peace. (rferl.org)
  • We know certain circles have targeted Hakan Fidan in the past," Erdogan told reporters, referring to Israeli accusations claiming Fidan is pro-Iranian. (ynetnews.com)
  • Rounding on Israeli President Shimon Peres, Erdogan called the Israeli operation in the Gaza Strip a "crime against humanity" and "barbaric. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Erdogan manipulated the event into a rupture of Turkish-Israeli relations lasting six years. (eurasiareview.com)
  • But even though Erdogan publicly slighted Israel on an almost daily basis, Israeli-Turkish trade grew massively over the period. (eurasiareview.com)
  • In education, Erdogan increased funding for schools across the country and made strides to reduce gender gaps in educational parity. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • Erdogan made several inflammatory comments in the years since, such as when he called Zionism a 'crime against humanity' in February 2013. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • There is a reason why the former "defender" - and the rest of the Islamic world - are keeping silent over current human rights abuses in the region: Erdogan has alienated the rest of Europe and made his country increasingly dependent on Chinese money . (worldcrunch.com)
  • Erdoğan will not yet have made a decision, but he has probably already started weighing up all of these options in his mind. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • Unlike former President Süleyman Demirel, who declared after becoming president he would not place two melons under his arm and severed his ties with his party, Erdoğan wants to have all three: the presidency, the government and the party. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • Moscow could sense that Erdogan was not really 'pivoting' to the west, but was rather showing an interest in improving western ties which had soured in recent years - and its outcome remains far from certain. (bibliotecapleyades.net)
  • I congratulate you on your election success and convey my sincere wishes for the peace and welfare of the US people," Erdogan said in a statement published by his office, urging "strong cooperation" between the sides. (arabnews.com)
  • Erdogan appeared to accuse the coup plotters of trying to kill him, and promised to purge the armed forces which in the past have staged a number of successful coups. (christiantoday.com)
  • A good guess is that Erdogan just barely sidestepped a major coup d'état and a complete loss of power. (veteranstoday.com)
  • Erdogan this week called Israel a "terrorist state" intent on destroying Gaza with all of its residents. (yahoo.com)
  • Erdogan did not say why the locations were scouted, but he noted later that Khashoggi's body has yet to be found. (cnn.com)
  • This promise was a lie from the very beginning and was designed to use Erdogan to generate the chaos, division and civil war needed by the Israelis and the CIA in the Mideast on behalf of the Khazarian Mafia Banksters for their Globalist NWO "Greater Israel" plan. (veteranstoday.com)
  • But the series of investigations that followed revealed a cynical anti-Israel plot planned with the connivance of Turkey's ruling AKP party and possibly of Erdogan himself, its leader. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Erdogan was invited to visit Germany months ago after his reelection, but recent weeks have been marked by discomfort in Berlin over his increasingly strident stance against Israel. (yahoo.com)
  • Erdogan suggested that Germany was unable to criticize Israel because of the Holocaust. (yahoo.com)
  • But in a country where Erdogan has dominated politics virtually unchallenged for the past decade, his word is final. (ynetnews.com)
  • But he expressed "real sadness about the big difficulties awaiting the country" -- a comment suggesting acceptance that Erdogan would run Turkiye until 2028. (gulf-times.com)
  • Erdogan had previously angered the Netherlands by saying the authorities had behaved like the Nazis, who had occupied and bombed the country in the World War II. (arabnews.com)
  • In a night that sometimes verged on the bizarre, Erdogan used social media to speak to the Turkish people - even though he is an avowed enemy of such technology when his opponents use it, frequently targeting Twitter and Facebook. (christiantoday.com)
  • While Scholz again advocated repeated "pauses" in the fighting, Erdogan said: "If we can establish a humanitarian cease-fire together with Germany, we will have the opportunity to save the region from this ring of fire. (yahoo.com)
  • As painful as it might be for Davutoğlu, Babacan and the rest of the AKP leadership and prime ministry aspirants, the message was clear as regards post-Erdoğan party politics and governance. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • The flotilla was organized with the support of the Turkish government, and prime minister Erdogan gave the instructions for it to set sail. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Erdogan started the Justice and Development Party in 2001, which won in the 2002 national election but he did not assume prime minister until 2003 due to the restriction from the poem he read in the 1990s. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • Erdoğan has already begun to make efforts to shape the public to accept a president who also acts like a party leader. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • Is Erdoğan indeed seeking to become a president who is at the same time the head of the government and the leader of the ruling party? (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • The constitutional amendments will simply formalize the creeping autocracy and Islamization that Erdogan has imposed on the Turkish people during his years as prime minister from 2003 to 2014, and while serving in the supposedly ceremonial post of president since 2014. (frontpagemag.com)
  • This enabled Erdogan to serve as Turkey's prime minister from 2003 to 2014. (com.pk)
  • The current prime minister is an Erdogan loyalist. (frontpagemag.com)
  • Erdogan also said that he would meet with Putin and Iranian President Hassan Rohani in Tehran in the near future, but he did not give an exact date. (rferl.org)