ANKARA: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to be sworn in on Saturday as head of state after winning a historic runoff election to extend his two-decade rule for another five years as Turkey’s economic woes worsen.The inauguration in parliament will be followed by a lavish ceremony at his palaceContinue Reading
ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a populist with increasingly authoritarian tendencies, is scheduled to take the oath of office and start his third presidential term on Saturday following his latest election win.Erdogan, who has led Turkey as prime minister or president for 20 years, prevailed in a runoff raceContinue Reading
ISTANBUL: Turkiye’s incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared victory in his country’s runoff election, extending his rule into a third decade. In his first comments since the polls closed, Erdogan spoke to supporters on a campaign bus outside his home in Istanbul. “I thank each member of our nationContinue Reading
ISTANBUL: Turkey’s biggest election of its post-Ottoman era confounded pollsters and threw up surprises that underscored the difficulty of gauging the mood of the sharply polarised country.President Recep Tayyip Erdogan came within a fraction of a percentage point of defeating secular challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu in the first round.Neither one’s abilityContinue Reading
ISTANBUL: A retired civil servant who few outside Turkey have heard of has pushed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan into an election run-off — the first of the country’s post-Ottoman history. It was a bittersweet result that left Kemal Kilicdaroglu‘s supporters frustrated following a heated night of vote counting in Turkey’sContinue Reading
Elon Musk has lashed out on Twitter after facing criticism for censoring content. It came after the social media platform agreed to limit tweets on the eve of Turkey’s presidential election, where President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was facing a challenge from the Republican People’s Party’s Kemal Kilicdaroglu. It’s not clearContinue Reading
ISTANBUL: As President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkiye approaches the toughest election of his career on Sunday, he has marshalled many of the resources of the state to tilt the playing field to his advantage. Erdogan, who has come to increasingly dominate the country over the past two decades, tappedContinue Reading
ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will lead Saturday prayers at Istanbul’s iconic Hagia Sophia mosque, ahead of a battle for his political life against a powerful secular rival.The 69-year-old will be emulating a ritual that Ottoman Sultans performed before they led their men off to war as he bracesContinue Reading
ANKARA, Turkey: Turkish forces have killed the leader of the Islamic State group during an operation in Syria, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said late Sunday.Recep Tayyip Erdogan told TRT Turk television in an interview that the IS leader, code-named Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi, was killed in a strike conducted onContinue Reading
JERUSALEM: Israeli warplanes and artillery struck targets in Syria following rare rocket fire from the northeastern neighbor, as Jewish-Muslim tensions reached a peak Sunday at a volatile Jerusalem shrine with simultaneous religious rituals. Thousands of Jewish worshippers gathered at the city’s Western Wall, the holiest place where Jews can pray,Continue Reading