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 ...

In 1998, while still mayor of Istanbul, Erdogan was arrested on charges of inciting racial hatred and spent four months in ...

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

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 ...

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

The European Commission on Monday called on Turkey to "uphold democratic ... sentenced to prison for reading a nationalist poem in public that was seen as incitement to religious hatred. After his ...