Erdogan to return as ruling party chief after vote victory
- 21-May-2017
ANKARA: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to return as chairman of Turkey’s ruling party on Sunday in a special congress, swiftly exploiting a key change agreed in the controversial April referendum on expanding his powers. Erdogan rejoined the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on May 2 after the public approved changes to create […]
Erdogan: The deeply divisive rule of Turkey’s ‘Sultan’
- 16-Jul-2016
ISTANBUL, TURKEY: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, facing down an attempted military coup, is the most divisive leader in the history of the modern republic. Adored by his supporters as a transformative figure who modernised Turkey, his foes have painted him as an increasingly despotic leader who ruthlessly shuts down any criticism. Turkey has suffered […]
Erdogan advises Turkish women to have ‘at least three children’
- 06-Jun-2016
ANKARA: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday urged Turkish women to have at least three children, saying a woman's life was "incomplete" if she failed to have offspring.
Turkey PM says to step down at May party congress
- 06-May-2016
ANKARA: Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu announced Thursday he would step down as ruling party chief at an extraordinary party congress on May 22, meaning he would also quit as premier.
In first, headscarf-wearing woman named minister in Turkey
- 29-Aug-2015
ANKARA: For the first time in the history of Turkey, a Muslim but secular country, a woman who wears an Islamic headscarf has been named as a government minister.