TEHRAN, YJC. – Turkish MP Osman Faruk Logoglu says President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is pushing Turkey to the past rather than the future by making the learning of the Ottoman era language obligatory.
ANKARA, July 22, 2014 (AFP) - Turkish authorities on Tuesday arrested 55 senior police officers in a criminal probe over alleged corruption and abuse of office, the latest apparent crackdown on opponents of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of presidential polls, television reports said.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears all but assured of winning upcoming Turkish presidential polls, but he could find himself in charge of a far more fragile economy than in the last decade of his rule.
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, dogged by months of street protests and corruption claims, faces a key ballot box test when his Islamic-rooted party contests local elections Sunday.
Born in a blue-collar Istanbul neighbourhood, Recep Tayyip Erdogan became modern Turkey's most powerful prime minister but is now under fire over corruption claims and an autocratic leadership style.
Tehran, YJC. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has defended his government’s decision to ban Twitter, saying he was “obliged” to take whatever measure to protect national security.
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei told the visiting Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, here in Tehran on Wednesday that the two countries' extensive capacities and potentials provide a proper ground for increasing development and deepening of bilateral relations.
US President Barack Obama avoided answering a question regarding the wire-tapping of Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan in his interview with Germany's ZDF.
The deepening corruption scandal shaking Turkey's political establishment seems to have pitted Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan against his longtime political ally President Abdullah Gul, observers say.
A UN-hosted peace conference on Syria must work to remove President Bashar al-Assad from power because of his culpability for tens of thousands of deaths, Turkey's Prime Minster said in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Turkey's economy minister, ensnared in a vast corruption scandal that has roiled the government of Prime Minister Recept Tayyip Erdogan, resigned Wednesday.
A high-profile graft scandal is hitting Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan with the biggest challenge yet to his 11 years in power and raises the stakes for elections set for next year.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has implied to expel US Ambassador to Ankara for his alleged remarks regarding a major graft probe in which four ministers face allegations of bribery and wrongdoing, and the state bank Halkbank is accused of for links to suspicious money transactions and gold-smuggling from Iran.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday left for a three-day trip to Turkey where he is expected to affirm closer bilateral economic cooperation, including Japan's exports of nuclear power reactors, in a meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.