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Recent News Headlines : Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

IT IS UNLIKELY THAT MR PUTIN WOULD BE ABLE TO HELP MR ERDOGAN ON THIS ONE.

This is partly because they are really focusing on Aleppo now, but also what Turkey is doing is not harming their interests...
10th October, 2016 128

LEADERSHIP HOPES OF BREXITEER BORIS ARE ON HOLD BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

But while his star dimmed after the Brexit vote, insiders say his ambition to be prime minister has not...
3rd October, 2016 0

GULENISTS HAVE ALSO LONG FILLED THE RANKS OF THE STATE -- THE POLICE, JUDICIARY AND MILITARY -- WITH THE BLESSING OF MR. ERDOGAN.

License plates with the letters FG, which might suggest an allegiance to Mr. Gulen, draw scrutiny from officials...
17th September, 2016 2250

IT DOESN'T HELP THAT TRUMP HIMSELF HAS BEEN VAGUE ABOUT HOW HE WOULD HANDLE POTENTIAL CONFLICTS IF ELECTED PRESIDENT.

Why Trump doesn't want you to see his tax returns...
16th September, 2016 1741

'CAR BOMB' EXPLOSION HITS TURKEY NEAR ERDOGAN REGIONAL PARTY HEADQUARTERS

Turkey explosion At least 48 injured in blast near AKP party headquarters in Van province...
13th September, 2016 1036

PROTECTIONISM OF EUROPE, U.S. WON'T SPILL INTO CANADA, TRUDEAU SAYS

HANGZHOU, CHINA--Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says there's little risk that protectionist forces seen in the United States and Europe will spill over into Canada...
5th September, 2016 382

HOW ERDOAN GOT MORE POPULAR THAN EVER IN TURKEY

Kemalism was a big institutional fantasy according to which Turkey was a kind of warm-water Sweden...
30th August, 2016 78

HIS MOVEMENT IS BELIEVED TO RUN MORE THAN 100 EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN GERMANY, INCLUDING NIGHT SCHOOLS AND TRAINING CENTRES.

It appears President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's controverisal crackdown against Mr Gulen's movement has spread to Germany...
30th August, 2016 3

BUT IN TURKEY, THE PURGES ARE SEEN DIFFERENTLY BY SOCIETY AT LARGE AND ARE ONE MORE POINT TO RALLY AROUND, EVEN FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN CRITICAL OF MR. ERDOGAN.

His in-laws stopped speaking to him after he voted for Mr. Erdogan's party last year, he said, but all that was forgotten after the coup attempt...
23rd August, 2016 13

GAZIANTEP WEDDING ATTACK TURKEY BACKTRACKS ON ERDOGAN'S ISIS AND CHILD SUICIDE BOMBER CLAIM

Saturday's bombing claimed over 50 lives, of which at least 22 were aged below 14...
23rd August, 2016 0

NOW BINALI YILDIRIM SAYS THAT EARLY INDICATIONS WERE NOT CORRECT.

Turkey backtracks on who was behind Gaziantep wedding blast...
23rd August, 2016 0

EDT -- A TURKISH GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL SAID MONDAY THAT AT LEAST 22 VICTIMS OF A SUICIDE BOMBING AT A KURDISH WEDDING IN GAZIANTEP CITY WERE AGED BELOW 14, ACCORDING TO REUTERS.

Original story: A child aged between 12 and 14 carried out a suicide bombing at a Kurdish wedding over the weekend in southeastern Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday...
22nd August, 2016 1

IN OCTOBER LAST YEAR, SUICIDE BOMBERS KILLED AT LEAST 95 PEOPLE ATTENDING A RALLY OF PRO-KURDISH AND LABOUR ACTIVISTS OUTSIDE ANKARA'S MAIN TRAIN STATION.

Turkey wedding bomb Suicide bomber who killed at least 51 was between 12 and 14 years old, says President Erdogan...
21st August, 2016 4

EDT -- THE DEATH TOLL FOR SATURDAY'S BOMB BLAST IN TURKEY'S GAZIANTEP CITY HAS RISEN TO 50, THE LOCAL GOVERNOR'S OFFICE REPORTEDLY SAID.

ISIS was blamed for the July attack in the Istanbul airport which killed 41 people...
21st August, 2016 2

TURKEY'S ERDOGAN ISLAMIC STATE SUICIDE BOMBER WHO KILLED 50 AT WEDDING PARTY 'WAS BETWEEN 12 AND 14 YEARS OLD'

Initial evidence suggests it was a Daesh attack, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's president, said during a visit to Gaziantep after the attack...
21st August, 2016 5

RELATED: TURKEY FREES MORE THAN 750 SOLDIERS AFTER FAILED COUP MORE THAN 10,000 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ARRESTED IN THE CRACKDOWN, MOST OF WHOM ARE MILITARY PERSONNEL.

Authorities have continued to search for army personnel suspected of participation in the failed coup...
17th August, 2016 34

IF IN YOU ARE IN TURKEY AND A TURKISH CITIZEN, YOU HAVE TO BLAME GULEN MOVEMENT FOR EVERYTHING.

This is how people who have some connection to Gulenist network suffers in Turkey right now...
15th August, 2016 90

SUKUR IS BELIEVED TO HAVE LEFT THE COUNTRY; ACCORDING TO SOME REPORTS, HE'S IN THE UNITED STATES.

According to Hurriyet Daily News, a court has authorized the seizure of Sukur's properties in the country...
13th August, 2016 574

ALTHOUGH TURKEY HAS A LONGSTANDING APPLICATION TO JOIN THE EU, RELATIONS BETWEEN ANKARA AND BRUSSELS HAVE REACHED THEIR LOWEST LEVEL SINCE MR ERDOGAN CAME TO POWER IN 2002.

The EU had "failed a test" by supposedly being slow to condemn the bid to overthrow the president and failing to send a representative to Ankara since the bloodshed...
11th August, 2016 58

IN A CLIMATE OF HEIGHTENED ANTI-WESTERN SENTIMENT, ERDOGAN'S MOVE TO WARM RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA MAY CEMENT TURKEY'S ALIENATION FROM ITS TRADITIONAL ALLIES, ANALYSTS SAY.

Turkey's Erdogan pivots to Putin as tensions rise with the West...
9th August, 2016 77

TURKEY 'CANNOT ENDURE' RUSSIAN VIOLATION OF AIRSPACE, PRESIDENT SAYS

Erdogan is also likely to ask Putin to temper Russian support for Kurds in Syria...
9th August, 2016 110

CHARTER FLIGHTS WERE HALTED, WITH MILLIONS OF RUSSIANS WHO HAD VACATIONED IN TURKEY ORDERED TO STAY HOME.

Mr. Erdogan would like less Russian support of the Kurds and less bombing along the border, which has driven refugees into Turkey...
9th August, 2016 120

BEFORE LEAVING TURKEY, MR ERDOGAN REFERRED TO PRESIDENT PUTIN AS HIS FRIEND AND SAID HE WANTED TO OPEN A NEW PAGE IN RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.

Turkey's President Erdogan in St Petersburg to 'reset' Russia ties...
9th August, 2016 103

TURKEY'S SHOOTING DOWN OF A RUSSIAN WARPLANE NEAR ITS BORDER WITH SYRIA LAST NOVEMBER LED MOSCOW TO IMPOSE ECONOMIC SANCTIONS, PARTICULARLY ON FOOD IMPORTS AND TOURISM.

Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin will focus their talks on the Syria conflict, trade, energy and the resumption of Russian charter flights to Turkey...
9th August, 2016 9

PRIME MINISTER BINALI YILDIRIM ALSO REITERATED ANKARA'S DEMAND THAT THE UNITED STATES EXTRADITE GULEN TO TURKEY.

The event marked the culmination of three weeks of nightly "democracy watches" -- demonstrations and vigils that sprang up nationwide in the aftermath of the July 15 coup attempt...
8th August, 2016 64

ERDOGAN SEIZES FAILED COUP IN TURKEY AS A CHANCE TO SUPPLANT ATATURK

Now, a failed coup may allow him finally to do that...
8th August, 2016 526

THE YENIKAPI MEETING AREA BY THE MARMARA SEA WATERFRONT IN ISTANBUL'S EUROPEAN SIDE WAS TRANSFORMED INTO A SEA OF RED AND WHITE, THE COLOURS OF TURKEY'S FLAG.

He spoke from a 60-metre stage framed by two platforms and draped with massive national flags and banners depicting Erdogan and Turkey's founding father Mustafa Kemal Ataturk...
8th August, 2016 14

TURKEY STAGES LARGEST-EVER RALLY TO SHOW UNITY AGAINST COUP BID

Turkey stages largest-ever rally to show unity against coup bid 1 - Chinadaily.com.cn...
8th August, 2016 0

EMBOLDENED ERDOGAN FACES ISTANBUL ANTI-COUP RALLY SEEN NUMBERING IN MILLIONS

Religious leaders and two of Turkey's three opposition parties attended the rally, sitting next to Erdogan, who arrived on board a helicopter with his wife, Emine...
8th August, 2016 2

LEADERS OF TURKEYA??S THREE MAIN POLITICAL PARTIES JOINED THRONGS OF COUNTRYMEN IN ISTANBUL FOR A PRO-DEMOCRACY RALLY.

Turkey's government has blamed the coup on followers of Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1999...
7th August, 2016 7

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ANKARA TERROR ATTACK TURKEY CENSORS MEDIA COVERAGE OF BOMBINGS AS TWITTER AND FACEBOOK 'BLOCKED'

Ankara terror attack turkey censors media coverage of bombings as twitter and facebook blocked...
10th October, 2015 6757

MOSCOW -- TURKISH PRESIDENT RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN AND HIS FAMILY ARE INVOLVED IN ISIS' ILLEGAL OIL TRADE AND PERSONALLY BENEFIT FROM IT, RUSSIA ALLEGED WEDNESDAY.

Russia Accuses Turkey's Erdogan of Involvement With ISIS Oil Trade...
2nd December, 2015 5301

EARLY IN HIS CAREER, AS MAYOR OF ISTANBUL, MR. ERDOGAN WAS JAILED FOR RECITING AN ISLAMIC POEM IN PUBLIC.

In Turkey, the president is technically second to the prime minister...
1st November, 2015 4610

DEADLY ANKARA ATTACK NOT ENOUGH TO UNIFY A POLARIZED TURKEY

Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan though usually a dominating presence in public life issued only a short statement and did not make a speech...
12th October, 2015 3826

MILITARY ATTEMPTS COUP IN TURKEY PRIME MINISTER SAYS

Blaming political enemies, Mr. Erdogan said What is being perpetrated is a rebellion and a treason...
15th July, 2016 3080

ANKARA ACCUSED OF VIOLATING ACADEMIC FREEDOM BY DETAINING 12 SIGNATORIES OF PETITION CALLING FOR END TO 'MASSACRE' OF KURDISH PEOPLE

Turkey rounds up academics who signed petition denouncing attacks on Kurds...
15th January, 2016 2663

A REPRESENTATIVE IN THE PRESIDENT'S OFFICE ON WEDNESDAY SAID DR. ERDOL WOULD NOT BE GIVING ANY MORE INTERVIEWS ON THE SUBJECT.

Nearly every world leader, of course, takes precautions in the matter of food safety, and the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, was known to have a food taster...
5th March, 2015 2605

TURKEY BOMB MASSACRE KILLS 95 AND INJURES OVER 180 AT PRO-KURDISH PEACE RALLY

Video Turkey bomb 'massacre' kills 30 and injures over 100 at pro-Kurdish peace rally...
10th October, 2015 2206

"I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY CONSENSUS THAT GOLLUM IS EVIL," MR. DROUT SAID IN AN INTERVIEW. "HE IS THE MOST TRAGIC CHARACTER IN 'THE LORD OF THE RINGS.' "

"The context is this: Gollum accidentally, not intentionally, saves the entire world," Mr. Drout said .....
4th December, 2015 2203

GOVERNMENT SAYS COUP ATTEMPT FOILED AMID REPORTS OF SPORADIC CLASHES IN ISTANBUL AND ANKARA.

Erdogan Turkey coup bid 'an act of treason'...
16th July, 2016 2000

TURKEY SACKS 15,000 EDUCATION WORKERS IN PURGE AFTER FAILED COUP

But large swaths of the population back the actions by the president, whom they idolise for boosting Turkey's economy and representing the country's lower classes...
20th July, 2016 1972

TURKEY COUP ATTEMPT MILITARY CLAIMS TO HAVE TAKEN OVER AS PRESIDENT SAYS HE WILL DEFEND GOVERNMENT

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said the attempted coup by sections of the military will be put down...
16th July, 2016 1790

THE TURKISH PRESIDENT, RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN, HAS SAID HE DESERVED RESPECT FROM THE WHOLE WORLD FOLLOWING SUNDAY'S RESULT.

But the international election observation mission that monitored the polls expressed serious concerns at a press conference in Ankara on Monday...
2nd November, 2015 1722

PEOPLE ALSO SHARED AN ANIMATED IMAGE OF MR. ERDOGAN'S FACE CHANGING TO HITLER'S.

Mr. Erdogan did not elaborate, but his comparison to Hitler drew immediate criticism because of what many view as his increasing authoritarianism...
1st January, 2016 1670

ERDOGAN, A PIOUS MUSLIM, HAS REPEATEDLY ANNOYED FEMINISTS AND WOMEN'S ACTIVISTS WITH HIS COMMENTS ON SEX AND FAMILY PLANNING, ONCE DESCRIBING BIRTH CONTROL AS TREASON .

Turkish president says childless women are 'deficient, incomplete'...
6th June, 2016 1553

BECAUSE IN THIS ENVIRONMENT OF CHAOS WE NEED A STRONG GOVERNMENT, SAID BERTAN AYDIN, 28, A STUDENT AND TAXI DRIVER IN ISTANBUL, JUST BEFORE VOTING ON SUNDAY.

In Istanbul's Sariyer district, a secular stronghold, said, Today I'm voting for peace...
2nd November, 2015 1501

RELATED STORIES POPE FRANCIS IS IN TURKEY FOR WHAT IS DESCRIBED AS A HISTORIC VISIT TO PROMOTE RELIGIOUS DIALOGUE.

Guardian.co.uk pope francis to visit turkey in most challenging mission of papacy so far 20 hrs ago...
28th November, 2014 1353

TURKEY COUP BID US WARNS AGAINST 'INSINUATIONS' OF INVOLVEMENT

He is a political Islamist who has rejected modern Turkey's secular heritage...
17th July, 2016 1330

CAPT KONSTANTIN MURAKHTIN TOLD RUSSIAN TELEVISION THERE WAS NO WAY THE JET COULD HAVE VIOLATED TURKISH AIRSPACE, AS TURKEY SAID IT DID.

Russia and Turkey have found themselves on opposing sides in Syria's conflict, with Russia supporting President Bashar al-Assad, while Turkey is a staunch critic...
25th November, 2015 1317

ZAMAN NEWSPAPER DEFIANT LAST EDITION AS TURKEY POLICE RAID

Turkish police raided Zaman's offices hours after a court ruling placed it under state control, but managers were still able to get the edition to print...
5th March, 2016 1258

SPEAKING SATURDAY MORNING, MR. ERDOGAN SAID, REFERRING TO MR. GULEN I HAVE A MESSAGE FOR PENNSYLVANIA YOU HAVE ENGAGED IN ENOUGH TREASON AGAINST THIS NATION.

In a news conference on Saturday, Turkey's top military officer, Gen...
16th July, 2016 1244

WHERE MR. ERDOGAN ONCE HELD UP TURKEY AS A MODEL OF MUSLIM DEMOCRACY, HE NOW FREQUENTLY ATTACKS DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS.

Turkish Leader Erdogan Making New Enemies and Frustrating Old Friends...
5th July, 2016 1183

TURKEY SEEKS TO EASE TENSIONS OVER SHOOTING DOWN OF RUSSIAN JET

That should not have any immediate effect on Turkey's tourism industry, as Russians will still be able to travel to Turkey without visas...
27th November, 2015 1161

EMBOLDENED BY HIS PARTY'S ELECTORAL VICTORY IN NOVEMBER, TURKISH PRESIDENT RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN HAS SET OUT ON A CRUSADE AGAINST ACADEMICS.

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses after he received an honorary doctorate from Bayburt University in Bayburt, Turkey, Friday, Nov. 27, 2015...
17th January, 2016 1129

PRESIDENT RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN HAS SAID HE WILL MAKE AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT AT TODAY'S NATIONAL SECURITY COMMITTEE MEETING IN ANKARA.

British teachers caught up in Turkey crackdown as Erdogan bans academics from leaving country and orders those overseas to return...
20th July, 2016 1126

TURKEY HAS SEEN A SHARP RISE IN THESE SCHOOLS UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF MR. ERDOGAN, HIMSELF AN IMAM HATIP GRADUATE.

In August, the Yesil Bahar Secondary School in Kadikoy, one of Istanbul's more liberal districts, was among hundreds of secular schools converted to religious ones...
18th December, 2014 1124

MR. BAKRAOUI AND THE UNIDENTIFIED BOMBER BLEW THEMSELVES UP AT THE BRUSSELS AIRPORT AT 7 58 A.M.

On Wednesday, the Belgian police raided a building in the Anderlecht neighborhood of Brussels...
25th March, 2016 1054

TURKEY'S PRESIDENT HAS DECLARED A STATE OF EMERGENCY FOR THREE MONTHS FOLLOWING FRIDAY NIGHT'S FAILED ARMY COUP.

This measure is in no way against democracy, the law and freedoms, said Mr Erdogan after announcing the state of emergency...
20th July, 2016 1041

MR. GULEN WAS ONCE AN ALLY OF MR. ERDOGAN'S BUT IS NOW A BITTER ENEMY.

And Islamic State militants, who have used Turkey to transit fighters and weapons to Syria and Iraq, have carried out deadly attacks on Turkish soil...
5th March, 2016 1037

O PRESIDENT RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN RETURNED TO ISTANBUL EARLY SATURDAY.

Turkey has been an American ally and a NATO member since 1952...
16th July, 2016 989

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HIDE CAPTION 28 OF 39 PHOTOS FAILED MILITARY COUP IN TURKEY SOLDIERS SECURE AN AREA AS SUPPORTERS OF TURKISH PRESIDENT RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN PROTEST IN ISTANBUL'S TAKSIM SQUARE.

Hide Caption 30 of 39 Photos Failed military coup in Turkey Supporters of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan protest in front of soldiers in Istanbul's Taksim Square...
21st July, 2016 177

THE AUTHOR OF "COUP D'ETAT: A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK" WRITES AT FOREIGNPOLICY.COM THAT THE PLANNERS VIOLATED RULE NO.

"On behalf of New York's taxpayers, I filed one of the suits that eventually pushed the cigarette makers to settle," he notes...
18th July, 2016 4

'SULTAN' ERDOGAN REGARDED BY MANY AS TURKEY'S MOST DIVISIVE MODERN RULER

ISTANBUL - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is seen as the most divisive Turkish leader in the history of the modern republic...
17th July, 2016 19

COMMENTARY WILL TURKEY'S FAILED COUP BREAK UP ERDOGAN'S ECHO CHAMBER

The failure of Turkey's latest attempted coup will be complete when we see President Tayyip Erdogan return to his daily duties in Ankara...
17th July, 2016 85

TURKEY COUP WHO IS FETHULLAH GULEN AND WHY IS RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN OBSESSED WITH HIM?

In a 2009 cable, made available through WikiLeaks, former US Ambassador James Jeffrey reports that in Turkey, the Gulen political agenda is seen as possibly insidious ...
16th July, 2016 24

ERDOGAN LOYALIST TO BE ELECTED TURKEY PRIME MINISTER

Turkey's ruling AKP is holding an extraordinary congress to choose a new leader who will also serve as prime minister...
22nd May, 2016 81

BUT MR. ERDOGAN HAS USED HIS NEW LEVERAGE TO PURSUE HIS CRITICS IN EUROPE, EXTENDING A CRACKDOWN AT HOME THAT HAS TARGETED MORE THAN 1,800 OPPONENTS, INCLUDING JOURNALISTS, FOR INSULTING HIM.

Prosecutors in Mainz are still investigating whether to formally open proceedings against Mr. Bohmermann on grounds that he offended a foreign leader with his satirical poem...
11th May, 2016 208

THE TURKISH PRESIDENT, RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN, IS SEEKING AN INJUNCTION AGAINST THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE GERMAN PUBLISHER AXEL SPRINGER.

Erdogan seeks injunction against German media chief who laughed at poem...
10th May, 2016 206

AS THE JOURNALISTS AWAITED THE COURT'S DECISION ON FRIDAY, AN ASSAILANT TRIED TO SHOOT MR. DUNDAR, SHOUTING TRAITOR AS HE FIRED AT HIM.

Turkey Sentences 2 Journalists Who Reported on Arms Shipments to Syrian Rebels...
7th May, 2016 229

PRIME MINISTER AHMET DAVUTOGLU ANNOUNCED THURSDAY HE WOULD STEP DOWN, A MOVE THAT MIGHT ALLOW ERDOGAN TO PUSH TURKEY TOWARD A PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM.

The journalists behind the Panama Papers exposA C of offshore tax havens are slated to release a massive, searchable archive of their leaked documents next week...
6th May, 2016 6

ANALYSTS SAY MR. ERDOGAN, GIVEN HIS POWER AND HIS VAST POPULARITY AMONG TURKEY'S PIOUS MASSES, IS UNLIKELY TO FACE MUCH POLITICAL COST IN REMOVING MR. DAVUTOGLU.

Mr. Davutoglu, a bookish and professorial counterweight to the brash and abrasive Mr. Erdogan, agreed in 2014 to be prime minister when Mr. Erdogan was elected president...
6th May, 2016 731

TURKISH PRESIDENT RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN, LEFT, AND PRIME MINISTER AHMET DAVUTOGLU DURING THEIR MEETING IN ANKARA THIS WEEK, WHICH PRECEDED THE PRIME MINISTER'S RESIGNATION.

How Turkey's Erdogan tightened his grip on power by sidelining his prime minister...
6th May, 2016 58

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