Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

...week Turkey's elite has been rocked by tales of politicians, judges and journalists being wiretapped. Even the prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, complained that "they eavesdropped on me for six years". Much about this story remains...

In this article: Turkey and Allegation

...Sarkozy said his country was ready to facilitate a resumption of talks between Syria and Israel, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that although Israel no longer trusts Turkey to mediate the talks, Damascus would...

In this article: Bashar Assad, Paris, Israel, Bernard Kouchner, Nicolas Sarkozy, Syria, Golan Heights, Damascus, and Turkey

...with police on several occasions. The transfer of the prisoners to the island came three days after the Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, urged parliament to back measures to widen rights for Turkey's 12 million Kurds. Ocalan will...

In this article: Abdullah Ocalan, Turkey, Imrali, Milliyet, European Union, and Istanbul

...broaden language rights for Kurdish citizens are a "historical opportunity" to solve one of Turkey's chronic problems, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister, told a ­mutinous parliament on Friday. He is hoping the reforms will persuade...

In this article: Turkey, Foreign Affairs, MHP, and European Union

...deemed terrorists by Turkey, the EU and the United States. "Have the mountains been bombed? They have," Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an address to lawmakers. "Have there been cross-border operations? Yes, there have. Is...

In this article: Turkey, Ahmet Turk, European Union, Democratic Society Party, Abdullah Ocalan, Ankara, United States, and Iraq

...of the old Soviet Union. But in a development that has raised Western eyebrows, relations between Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have lately become almost cozy. Erodgan recently...

In this article: Turkey, Iran, European Union, Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Israel, Islam, and NATO

...not be arrested, as Turkey was not a signatory to the treaty which set up the Hague-based ICC. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan went as far as saying over the weekend that no war crimes had occurred in Darfur and that he would be...

In this article: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Turkey, Omar al-Bashir, Iran, Islamic, EU, Darfur, Istanbul, and Tehran