In the five months since Turkey detained President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s top political rival, the authorities have arrested ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has confirmed his country's readiness to organize a summit of the leaders of Ukraine, ...

While Erdoğan may imagine himself a sultan restoring the Ottoman Empire, Turks will likely remember him as the man whose ...

When vacationers load their plates with food at the hotel buffet, leftovers are often inevitable. Turkey now aims to tackle ...

A mayor from Turkey's main opposition party joined President Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AK Party on Thursday amid a crackdown on the opposition in which 15 mayors have been detained. Ozlem Cercioglu, ...

As fresh tremors strike Balıkesir, Turkey faces renewed scrutiny over unmet reconstruction pledges made after the 2023 ...

Erdogan has governed Turkey as either prime minister or president since 2003. In the run-up to the election, opinion surveys had indicated the increasingly authoritarian leader narrowly trailed ...

Erdogan’s opponent in Sunday’s runoff, 74-year-old Kemal Kilicdaroglu, has said he would improve Turkey’s relationship with the West and move to restart a long-stalled bid to join the ...

Experts say Turkey has been on the path towards autocracy for some time now. Since surviving an attempted coup in 2016, Erdogan has expanded his presidential powers and cracked down on opposition ...

Erdogan, who has been at Turkey's helm for 20 years, came just short of victory in the first round of elections on May 14. It was the first time he failed to win an election outright, but he made ...

Erdogan, who has been at Turkey’s helm for 20 years, was favored to win a new five-year term in the second-round runoff, after coming just short of outright victory in the first round on May 14.

Like Mr Erdogan, the opposition plans to lean on Mr Assad to take back many of the 3.6m Syrian refugees now in Turkey and to police Kurdish insurgents.