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 ...

DW traces back how Turkey got to this point. From a working class neighborhood Erdogan was born in 1954 ... to prison for reading a nationalist poem in public that was seen as incitement to ...

From humble beginnings, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has grown into a political giant, leading Turkey for 22 years and reshaping his ... of inciting racial hatred for publicly reading a nationalist poem that ...

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 ...

The recent arrest of Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and main rival of President Erdoğan has sparked the largest protests in Turkey in a decade, with over 1,100 people detained in ...

These court rulings not only derail his presidential ambitions but also oust him from his position as mayor of Turkey’s largest city and economic powerhouse. For years, Turkish President Recep Tayyip ...

Erdogan started his political career as a mayor of Istanbul, a city of 16 million people that is often looked at politically and socially as a microcosm of Turkey. In a post on social media ...

Imamoglu, one of Turkey’s most popular political figures, was the major threat to Erdogan. Erdogan extended his rule into a third decade after winning a knife-edge presidential election in 2023 ...

Many people have accused the government of using the courts to sideline a perceived political threat to Mr. Erdogan, who has led Turkey since 2003, and have called for Mr. Imamoglu’s release.

Erdogan has been president of Turkey since 2014 and ever since then he has continued to expand his powers. In 2018, he was given far-reaching powers when the current presidential system was ...