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

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

With Turkey in the middle, both figuratively and literally, as Erdogan pointed in an interview with Newsweek last July, the Turkish leader has both invested in its NATO role and sought closer ...

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 ...

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.

Whether Erdogan wins or loses, Ankara is unlikely to untangle itself from Moscow and turn back to the West. To start, Turkey can’t afford it. The economy is mired in inflation.

Turkey is less than four months away from a presidential election that could extend the 20-year rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan into a third decade. Analysts say that the result may be a ...

Not only has Mr. Erdogan refused to join Western sanctions against Russia and provided a market for its oil and gas, Turkey has also become a source for Moscow of much-needed imports and a crucial ...

Turkey’s Erdogan says he trusts Russia ‘just as much as I trust the West’ Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks at a news conference at the end of the G-20 summit in New Delhi on Sept ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses supporters at the AK Party's "Great Istanbul Rally" on May 7, 2023, in Istanbul, Turkey, ahead of the May 14 election.

President Tayyip Erdogan said he had lowered Turkey's inflation to around 4% before and that he will achieve that again, as it topped 21% following a push for aggressive cuts in interest rates ...