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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) lost the Istanbul mayoral election again. But when he meets with world leaders in Osaka, Erdogan will have even bigger challenges. When they take their ...
Istanbul is one of the most famous cities in the world, on account of a storied history encompassing myriad great events. As Byzantium, it was first the fortress of the eastern Roman Empire and then ...
Ekrem Imamoglu, mayoral candidate of Turkey’s main opposition party, greets supporters at a rally in Istanbul.Kemal Aslan/Reuters After his party suffered a humiliating loss in Istanbul, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is down but far ...
PHOTO: AFP The latest polls show that the opposition’s candidate, Ekrem İmamoğlu, will probably be the winner of Sunday’s İstanbul mayoral election. It will be the second time, but this time, everyone expects more consequences. ...
The authoritarianism of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, center, and the cronyism in his governing party are undermining Turkey’s economy and education system.CreditCreditEuropean Pressphoto Agency, via Shutterstock ANKARA, Turkey — Once jailed for reciting a ...
Residence of the Ambassador of Turkey Source: Flickr/Mr.TinDC In May 2017, protests in Washington, D.C., against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ended in violence by Turkish security officials. Now, two different groups of anti-Erdogan protesters have brought ...
Lost in the electoral struggle for Istanbul, the deeper lesson of Turkey’s local election is the rise of Turkish nationalism. It has weakened President Erdoğan, and it offers the United States new options in developing ...
The US is mulling sanctions on Turkey over its purchase of the S-400 missile defense system from Russia. US President Donald Trump also threatened to sanction Germany for doing a gas pipeline deal with Russia. ...
BY HARUT SASSOUNIAN On June 6, Patrick Shanahan, Acting Defense Secretary of the United States, sent a harsh letter to his counterpart, Hulusi Akar, Turkey’s Minister of Defense. Shanahan threatened to end Turkey’s participation in ...
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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, April 3, 2018. Reuters Turkey has vowed to forge ahead with its acquisition of Russia’s S-400 air-defense system, despite objections ...