President Obama and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan have worked closely to manage events in Egypt, Libya, Syria, and, increasingly, Iran. They have talked by phone 13 times this year ...

(Answer: Cologne happens.) On that score, I was thinking of President Obama’s good friend, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s Islamic-supremacist President (for Life, no doubt), who has just moved ...

Obama boasted of a “special friendship” with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. As president, Obama suddenly forgot the promise he made as a senator to formally acknowledge the Armenian ...

Until the rise of Imamoglu, Demirtas was seen as the only politician in Turkey who could rival Erdogan's rhetorical skills and was known to some admirers as "Kurt Obama" (Kurdish Obama ...

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On the last day of President Obama's visit to Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized to Turkey for a commando raid in 2010 that killed nine people aboard a Turkish ship trying to ...

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Turkish authorities detained President Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival Ekrem Imamoglu on Wednesday on an array of charges including corruption and aiding a terrorist group just days before ...

Hundreds of thousands of Turks protested in Istanbul on Saturday against the jailing of Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogan's main rival, sustaining the largest demonstrations Turkey ...