Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Erdogan vows to make amends after humbling ‘loss of altitude’
Turkey’s opposition won the popular vote for the first time in decades, dealing a blow to the strongman who hoped a new constitution would extend his power.
- by Daren Butler and Ece Toksabay
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‘We will save our country’: Erdogan launches re-election campaign
The Turkish president’s aggressive interest rate cuts sent inflation to a 24-year peak above 85 per cent in October. It’s currently at 50.5 per cent.
- by Ece Toksabay and Ebru Tuncay
‘Erdogan resign!’: Earthquake fallout threatens strongman’s chances
With elections in May, Erdogan has been kissing babies and asking for forgiveness, but criminal complaints and voters are pinning the scale of the disaster on him.
- by Nataliya Vasilyeva
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Earthquakes
Quake death toll rises past 20,000, but rescues bring hope 94 hours after strike
More than 74,000 people in Turkey alone have been injured by the quake, but miracle rescues are still taking place despite 1509 aftershocks.
- by Umit Bektas, Mehmet Caliskan and Khalil Ashawi
‘Will we see better days?’ Foreign rescuers arrive but quake survivors still struggle for aid
Anger over the Turkish government response is still raw with crowds demanding to know why flattened buildings aren’t being searched for survivors.
- by Kareem Fahim and Zeynep Karatas
Cold, homeless, grieving: Turks express frustration at earthquake relief effort
“We survived the earthquake, but we will die here due to hunger or cold,” said one woman in central Turkey, where people sought temporary shelter and food in freezing winter weather.
- by Mehmet Caliskan, Huseyin Hayatsever and Ece Toksabay
‘The day is near’: Turkey’s Erdogan vows to invade Syria
Turkey has already launched a barrage of airstrikes on suspected militant targets in northern Syria and Iraq in recent days.
- by Abby Sewell and Hogir Al Abdo
‘Smells like terrorism’: Person arrested after deadly explosion rocks central Istanbul
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan says an explosion that tore through a busy pedestrian street in Istanbul may have been a terror attack.
- by David Gauthier-Villars and Azra Ceylan
Turkey launches massive clean-up of ‘sea snot’ choking its coast
The unappetising muck has become a source of national embarrassment and rising anger, prompting the President to intervene.
- by Antonia Noori Farzan
‘Deep wound’: Turkey urges Biden to reverse Armenian genocide call
The Turkish president slammed the United States for having failed to find a solution to the decades-old conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia in Nagorno-Karabakh
- by Tuvan Gumrukcu and Ezgi Erkoyun
No ‘justification’: Ursula von der Leyen calls out sexism after April diplomatic meeting
European Commission President told the EU Parliament that she believed that in a meeting with Turkey’s leader she had been denied a chair and equal billing.
- by Michael Birnbaum
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