How Turkey's president Erdogan has maintained a tight grip on power in the country

abcnews.go.com ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a populist with increasingly authoritarian tendencies, is scheduled to take the oath of office and start his third…

Escobar: The Sultan 2.0 Will Heavily Tilt East

zerohedge.com Escobar: The Sultan 2.0 Will Heavily Tilt East Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Cradle, It's not that Erdogan has a scheme to head east at the west's expense. It's just that…

White House Steps Up Pressure On Turkey: "Time Is Now" To Admit Sweden Into NATO

zerohedge.com White House Steps Up Pressure On Turkey: "Time Is Now" To Admit Sweden Into NATO The United States and the Western allies are stepping up the pressure on Turkey to admit…

With Erdoğan back, Sweden presses Turkey again on NATO bid

politico.eu LULEÅ, Sweden — Sweden has met all of its commitments to join NATO and expects to become part of the transatlantic military alliance by July, Tobias Billström, the country’s…

What Does Five More Years of Turkey's Erdogan Mean for the West?

newsweek.com After two decades of dominating Turkish politics—11 years as prime minister and 9 years as president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan was recently re-elected for another…

West steps up pressure on Turkey to admit Sweden into Nato

ft.com PM Ulf Kristersson writes in FT that anti-terror law delivers on last part of deal for Ankara’s support

Turkey’s Lira Hits New Low After Erdogan’s Re-Election

wsj.com A greengrocer in Ankara. Inflation, a shortage of foreign currency and the weakness of the lira are weighing on Turkey’s economy. ISTANBUL—Turkey’s local currency fell to a…

What Does Erdogan's Reelection Mean For The New Cold War?

zerohedge.com What Does Erdogan's Reelection Mean For The New Cold War? Authored by Conor Gallagher via NakedCapitalism.com, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has another five years…

Turkish lira plunges as Erdoğan claims mandate to continue divisive rule

theguardian.com The Turkish lira has hit a record low after the election win of the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in a renewed sign of the economic troubles his country is expected to…

With new mandate secured, Turkey's Erdogan likely to continue engaging with both West and Russia

go.com ANKARA, Turkey -- After securing a strong new mandate in a runoff presidential election, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan could temper some positions that have irritated his…

Turkish President Erdogan wins runoff to secure his grip on power

pbs.org Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won Sunday's run-off election, surviving the biggest challenge to his two decades in power. The victory cements his grip on Turkey, an…

Putin congratulates 'dear friend' Erdogan as NATO's Turkey challenge looks set to stay

cnbc.com Turkey on Sunday voted for another five years of the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the powerful, nationalist president who now enters his third decade in power.…

What Turkey's Erdoğan does next

politico.eu After two decades in power, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan consolidated his dominance over Turkish politics with victory in Sunday’s presidential election. The question now facing…

What Does Erdogan’s Reelection Mean for the New Cold War?

nakedcapitalism.com Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has another five years in power after defeating opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu in Sunday’s runoff election. Kilicdaroglu was in…

Turkey's Erdogan turns away reform-minded challenger to win another term

go.com ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan turned away a challenger who sought to reverse his authoritarian-leaning changes, securing five more years to…

Turkey’s Erdoğan Holds Onto Power

wsj.com Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, Devlet Bahceli, leader of Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), and New Welfare Party leader Fatih Erbakan greet Erdogan's supporters following…

Days after Twitter blocked Turkish President Erdogan's political opponents from posting on the site, the increasingly authoritarian leader won re-election…

businessinsider.com Supporters of the President Recep Tayyip Erdogan celebrate outside AK Party offices in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, May 28, 2023. Turkey's incumbent President Recep Tayyip…

What Erdogan’s win means for the West

vox.com Citizens wave a Turkish flag by an election kiosk for Turkish President and People’s Alliance’s presidential candidate Recep Tayyip Erdogan on May 8, 2023, in Istanbul,…

Turkey's President Erdogan seals election victory to enter third decade in power

cnbc.com Turkey's President and leader of the Justice and Development (AK) Party Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech during his partys group meeting at the Turkish Grand National…

Turnout Low & Slow As Polls Close In First Ever Turkish Presidential Run-Off

zerohedge.com Turnout Low & Slow As Polls Close In First Ever Turkish Presidential Run-Off By Sunday's end Turkey is expected to have a clear winner in the election runoff and what marks…

Early results appear split in Turkey's presidential runoff election as votes are counted

pbs.org Preliminary, unofficial results from Turkey’s state Anadolu news agency showed incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead with 76 percent of ballot boxes counted, while…

Turkey's Erdogan appears set to hold on to power after presidential run-off vote

nbcnews.com ISTANBUL — Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, appears set to extend his leadership of the influential NATO member after seeing the strongest challenge to his 20-year…

Voters in Turkey choose between Erdogan and Kilicdaroglu in presidential runoff

theglobeandmail.com Polls closed in Turkey in a runoff presidential race that will decide whether the country’s long-time leader stretches his increasingly authoritarian rule into a third…

Turkish election: Voters choose between Erdogan and Kilicdaroglu in presidential runoff

theglobeandmail.com Voters in Turkey returned to the polls Sunday to decide whether the country’s longtime leader stretches his increasingly authoritarian rule into a third decade, or is…

Pivotal presidential runoff held in Turkey

politico.com ANKARA, Turkey — Voters in Turkey returned to the polls Sunday to decide whether the country’s longtime leader stretches his increasingly authoritarian rule into a third…

Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan looks to hold onto power in presidential run-off

nbcnews.com ANKARA, Turkey — It’s one of the most hotly contested presidential elections in recent times, but at the Arjantin İlkokulu elementary school in Turkey’s capital Ankara, the…

Voters in Turkey choose between Erdogan and Kilicdaroglu in presidential runoff election

go.com ANKARA, Turkey -- Voters in Turkey returned to the polls Sunday to decide whether the country’s longtime leader stretches his increasingly authoritarian rule into a third…

Turkey votes in runoff election after candidates double down on nationalism and fear

cnbc.com Millions of Turks are casting their ballots Sunday for the second time in two weeks to decide the outcome of what has been the closest presidential race in Turkey's history.…

A former bureaucrat is giving Erdogan a run for his money

economist.com K rarely talks about his personal life, and even less about his religion. But last month the man hoping to replace Recep Tayyip Erdogan as Turkey’s president recorded a…

Turkey’s opposition has picked its man

economist.com I long enough. On March 6th, with fewer than 70 days left before the expected date of Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections, a group of six opposition party…

Welcome to a new era of petrodollar power

economist.com A hungry headhunters has descended on Europe’s financial quarters. Over coffee in the mid-morning lull, they tempt staffers at blue-chip investment funds with tax-free jobs,…

Burhan Sönmez on the Tensions Between Politics and Art in Turkey

nytimes.com Burhan Sönmezm, a writer who is part of Turkey’s ethnic Kurdish minority, sees the upheavals of the Erdogan years as only the latest chapter in an ongoing struggle of…

Whoever Wins Turkey’s Runoff, A Policy U-Turn Is Needed To Woo Back Investors

forbes.com Turkey’s economy is heading in the wrong direction. Several years of questionable policy decisions by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have financially battered the country,…

Turkey's runoff election is paralyzing key oil exports from northern Iraq

cnbc.com Turkey's runoff election is compounding delays to restart roughly 450,000 barrels per day of Iraqi crude oil exports, as Ankara studies its relationship with Baghdad,…

Turkish anti-migrant party backs Erdogan's rival in presidential runoff

go.com ANKARA, Turkey -- A hard-line anti-migrant party on Wednesday threw its weight behind the opposition candidate who is running against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in this…

Turkish nationalist 'kingmaker' candidate throws support behind Erdogan, spelling peril for the opposition

cnbc.com ATA Alliance Presidential candidate Sinan Ogan announced that he will support the Presidential candidate of the People's Alliance, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in the second round…

Iraq Oil Output Continues To Fall Amid Turkey Spat

zerohedge.com Iraq Oil Output Continues To Fall Amid Turkey Spat By Alex Kimani of OilPrice.com Oil production in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)-ruled region…

Turkey to Join and Adopt BRICS Currency in 2023?

watcher.guru Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently said the country has a “special” relationship with Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Subsequently, amid the potential expansion plans…

BRICS: Will Turkey Join and Adopt BRICS Currency in 2023?

watcher.guru Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently said the country has a “special” relationship with Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Subsequently, amid the potential expansion plans…

Turkey’s Kurds are joining the coalition to oust Erdogan

economist.com N tenure as mayor of Kiziltepe, a town in Turkey’s south-east, was short-lived. In November 2019, seven months after she was elected, Mrs Yilmaz, a member of the People’s…

Finland has Turkey’s approval and can at last join NATO

economist.com I snow outside Suomussalmi, a town 600km (370 miles) north of Helsinki, lies a metre deep. Step off the road and you sink to your thighs, as the Soviet army’s 44th Rifle…