Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan in Pakistan with critical timing
POLITICS > Turkish Prime Minister ErdoAYan in Pakistan with critical timing PM ErdoAYan is expected to give messages of unity in his adress to the Parliament. AA photo Prime Minister...
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No step back after PKK raids, says Turkish PM
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ErdoAYan says his Justice and Development Party (AKP) will not back down in the Kurdish problem in the wake of recent attacks against the ruling party members in...
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Fenerbahce re-elects jailed chairman Yildirim
...the three-year post in 1998, has said the trial is politically motivated on the part of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's government. Fenerbahce were runner-up this year after main rivals...
Lawyers for fugitive Iraqi VP quit case in protest
...and Turkey where al-Hashemi took refuge. On Sunday, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan maintained he has no intention of extraditing al-Hashemi to Iraq. "Until the day that the...
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Islamists Threaten Insurgency Should Secularists Win Egypt Election
Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan, while still mayor of Istanbul, famously quipped, "Democracy is like a streetcar. When you come to your stop, you get off. " Alas, as Martin Kramer has...
Turkey's Creeping Islamization
While Western diplomats persist in calling Turkey a "model," Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Islamist-leaning Justice and Development Party (AKP) continues to tweak relatively minor rules to change...
A week to remember
...Iran, Iraq and Syria. So when it says "no," even Obama answers "yes, sir." Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants a simple thing from Israel: an apology. Not an expression of sorrow,...
Turkish colonel arrested over suspected coup plot
...on suspicion of being part of several conspiracies to push Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan from power. Erdogan's AK Party, which has Islamist roots, has been elected three times since...
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Turkey, Qatar to construct a EUR750 million road to EU through Bulgaria
...after a meeting between the Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad Al Thani. The road...
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Turkey's PM threatens theaters after actor 'humiliates' daughter
...time of the sultans, when one wrong word could seal your fate, the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is threatening to withdraw state support from the country's theatres after...
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Spat with Iraq bares Turk plunge into regional power game
...Sunni, Shi'ite and Kurdish factions. This was no better exemplified than by Erdogan's trip to Iraq in March 2011 when he made sure to visit all three centers of power: Baghdad, the...
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Iraq summons Turkish envoy again as tensions grow
...took place on Tuesday but did not say what the diplomats were accused of. Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and his Iraqi counterpart Nuri al-Maliki have traded tit-for-tat...
