It was hard to miss the note of alarm in a Hill headline on “Neo-Ottoman Turkey’s triumph over its regional rivals.” “Turkey,” Washington policy analyst Andrew Latham warned, “has carved out a new ...

The imprisonment of Istanbul's mayor and the resulting protests have put the focus back on the Turkish President's political ...

Traditionally, whoever controls Istanbul also controls Turkey. Erdogan himself started his political ... by reciting a poem: "The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets ...

Erdogan knows the playbook – he also rose to national prominence as mayor of Istanbul, back in the 1990s when Turkey was ...

From humble beginnings, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has grown into a political giant, leading Turkey for 22 years and reshaping his ...

On the day of his incarceration, Erdogan released an album of poetry, This Song Does Not End Here ... Illustration: Tania Chou At the turn of the millennium, Turkey was not run by an autocrat able to ...

Turkey took a sharp turn toward full ... Otherwise, Türkiye will lose,” Gül said. In 1998, Erdoğan was convicted for inciting religious hatred and banned from politics after reciting a poem when he ...

Turkish authorities detained President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's most prominent rival ... Warren Buffett once suggested reading a 19th century poem when stocks fall ...

Protests in Turkey were blasted with water cannons as ... the mayor of Istanbul and a key political opponent of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was detained just days before announcing his ...

The combination of election success and legal battles has now cemented Imamoglu's status as Erdogan's main rival and biggest ...