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In setback to Turkey’s Erdogan, opposition makes huge gains in local election

April 01, 2024

Turkey’s main opposition party retained its control over key cities and made huge gains elsewhere in Sunday’s local elections, in a major upset to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had set his sights on retaking control of those urban areas.

Turkey gives green light to Swedish Nato membership bid

July 11, 2023

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday agreed to forward to parliament Sweden's bid to join the Nato military alliance, appearing to end months of drama over an issue that had strained the bloc as war has raged in Ukraine.

Turkey will not lift its opposition to Sweden joining Nato

TUESDAY, JULY 04, 2023

Turkey will not lift its opposition to Sweden joining Nato unless it stops harbouring groups Ankara considers to be terrorists, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday.

Turkey's Erdogan prevails in election test of his 20-year rule

MONDAY, MAY 29, 2023

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday Turks had given him the responsibility of governing for the next five years, declaring Turkey as the only winner of a runoff presidential election.

Turkey faces runoff election with Erdogan leading

MONDAY, MAY 15, 2023

Turkey appeared headed for a runoff presidential election after neither President Tayyip Erdogan nor rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu cleared the threshold to win outright on Sunday, in a poll seen as a verdict on Erdogan's 20-year rule and increasingly authoritarian path.

Turkey votes in pivotal elections that could end Erdogan's 20-year rule

SUNDAY, MAY 14, 2023

Turks voted on Sunday in one of the most important elections in modern Turkey's 100-year history, which could either unseat President Tayyip Erdogan and halt his government's increasingly authoritarian path or usher in a third decade of his rule.

Islamic State leader killed in Syria by Turkish intelligence services - Erdogan

MONDAY, MAY 01, 2023

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkish intelligence forces killed Islamic State leader Abu Hussein al-Qurashi in Syria.

Erdogan attends nuclear plant ceremony via videolink amid health concerns

FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2023

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin virtually inaugurated Turkey's first nuclear power plant on Thursday, hailing wider economic ties between Ankara and Moscow.

Turkish leader declares emergency as Turkey-Syria quake death toll passes 6,300

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 07, 2023

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday declared a state of emergency in 10 provinces devastated by two earthquakes that killed more than 5,400 people and left a trail of destruction across a wide area of southern Turkey and neighbouring Syria.

Major earthquake strikes Turkey, Syria; about 300 dead, many trapped

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 06, 2023

A major earthquake of magnitude 7.8 struck central Turkey and northwest Syria on Monday, killing about 300 people and injuring hundreds as buildings collapsed across the region, triggering searches for survivors in the rubble.

Tense Turkey votes in crunch referendum on Erdogan powers

SUNDAY, APRIL 16, 2017

ISTANBUL - Turkey on Sunday began voting in a referendum on expanding the powers of the head of state under President Tayyip Erdogan that will determine its future political destiny but whose outcome remains in doubt after a bitterly-contested campaign.

Germany tells Turkey return of death penalty would end EU accession talks

MONDAY, JULY 18, 2016

BERLIN - Turkey cannot join the European Union if it reinstates the death penalty, a spokesman for the German government said on Monday, sending a clear message to President Tayyip Erdogan who has raised the possibility after a failed military coup.

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