Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Turkey Looks To Curb Abortion, C-Sections

AP | SELCAN HACAOGLU | Posted 05.29.2012

ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkey's health minister said Tuesday that the government wants to reduce the number of abortions, days after the prime minister lik...

Turkish PM To Syrian Refugees: 'Your Victory Is Close'

AP | SELCAN HACAOGLU | Posted 05.06.2012

ANKARA, Turkey -- Treated to a hero's welcome, Turkey's prime minister met Syrian refugees Sunday for the first time since his country opened its door...

Politics and Policies: Dealing With Ankara No Turkey Trot for Damascus

Claude Salhani | Posted 05.03.2012

Claude Salhani

Turkey is a real force to be reckoned with in the Levant. And if memories serve well, upsetting the Ottoman Turks never proved to be a very intelligent policy. Upsetting modern-day Turks may not differ.

Syria Claims To Be Pulling Back Troops, But Activists Report New Attacks

AP | Associated Press | Posted 04.11.2012

BEIRUT (AP) - Syrian troops shelled and raided opposition strongholds nationwide on Tuesday, activists said, prompting an urgent appeal by internation...

Turkish PM In Iran For Talks On Nuclear Program

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 05.28.2012

TEHRAN, Iran -- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other Iranian officials were to discuss Tehran's disputed nuclear program and the crisis in Syria wi...

Turkey's Vision for 2012 and Beyond: Davutoglu's Washington Visit

Joshua W. Walker | Posted 04.18.2012

Joshua W. Walker

It is too soon to tell whether Davutoğlu's promising rhetoric may become a reality, but at least Washington has experienced first-hand Turkey's approach and vision for 2012 and beyond.

Joshua Hersh

Syria Crisis: Turkey Inches, Somewhat Reluctantly, To The Forefront

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 02.13.2012

WASHINGTON -- When Turkey's Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, arrived in Washington late last week, he came with a clear and direct message about the...

Turkey's Dangerous Diplomacy

Abraham H. Foxman | Posted 04.08.2012

Abraham H. Foxman

I greatly fear that Turkey's fraying democracy and new foreign policy approach will lead the country on a dangerous collision course with its allies in the West.

Turkey, Where Islam Seeks Balance With Western World

AP | CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA | Posted 04.06.2012

ISTANBUL (AP) — For adversaries in a long-distance spat, they made an odd couple. Turkey's leader, a brash visionary who propelled his country to re...

Paris's Folly

Yavuz Baydar | Posted 03.27.2012

Yavuz Baydar

The French Senate's passing of the bill which criminalizes the denial of the mass deportations and massacres of the Ottoman Armenians in 1915 is simply an act of folly.

Can Assad's "Iron Fist" Be Broken?

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 03.14.2012

Amb. Marc Ginsberg

Is there any way to "break" the regime's so-called "iron hand" short of outside Libya-style military intervention, which is just not in the cards for both practical military and diplomatic reasons? So far, there really is no light at the end of this tunnel.

Turkey's 2012 Re-Adjustment to Post-"Zero Problems" in the Aftermath of the Arab Awakenings

Joshua W. Walker | Posted 01.05.2012

Joshua W. Walker

Turkey's newfound swagger and Prime Minister Erdoğan's emergence as an international leader should be welcomed as signs of a more responsible stakeholder in regional stability and long-term democratization.

Thousands Mourn Civilians Killed In Botched Air Raid

AP | CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA | Posted 02.29.2012

ISTANBUL — Turkish Kurds vented their rage Friday over a botched military airstrike aimed at Kurdish rebels that instead killed 35 civilians, wi...

Turkish PM: France Should Investigate Its Own 'Dirty And Bloody History'

AP | By SUZAN FRASER | Posted 02.16.2012

ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkey's prime minister on Saturday sharply criticized France for a bill that would make it a crime to deny the World War I-era mass...

Turkey: The Center of Everything

Eric Margolis | Posted 01.28.2012

Eric Margolis

The US, France, Israel and Britain are so blinded by their anti-Iran passion, they are ready to destroy Syria to get at Great Satan Iranian. That's like burning down your house to get rid of mice.

Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers

Foreign Policy | Posted 11.28.2011

Foreign Policy presents a unique portrait of 2011's global marketplace of ideas and the thinkers who make them....

Turkish PM Apologizes For Thousands Of Kurdish Deaths

AP | SELCAN HACAOGLU | Posted 11.23.2011

ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkey's prime minister apologized Wednesday for the first time for the killings of nearly 14,000 people in a bombing and strafing c...

Turkish PM: Assad Must Go, Look At What Happened To Hitler

AP | ZEINA KARAM and SUZAN FRASER | Posted 01.22.2012

BEIRUT — Turkey's prime minister said Tuesday that Syria's president must step down over the country's crackdown on dissent, ratcheting up the p...

Erdogan of Turkey's Blood Libel Against the Jewish State

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 12.03.2011

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Just as it is proper for Jews to try and overlook Turkey's current leader and remember the age-old friendship between the two peoples, it behooves the Turks themselves to rein in their prime minister from his character assassination of the Jewish state.

Despite Fallout With Turkey, Israel Forms Strategic Alliance With Greece and Cyprus

Sigurd Neubauer | Posted 11.30.2011

Sigurd Neubauer

Improved relations with Athens and Nicosia should be considered a victory for Netanyahu, but it's unclear whether an alliance with Cyprus and the Balkan states can substitute for Israel's former partnership with Turkey.

The Land of Liberty Says No to Palestine

Eric Margolis | Posted 11.19.2011

Eric Margolis

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas has arrived in New York to ask the UN Security Council to turn his territory into a real nation. Consideri...

U.S. To Turkey: Mend Ties With Israel

AP | By BRADLEY KLAPPER | Posted 11.19.2011

NEW YORK -- The U.S. wants Turkey to "keep the door open" to improved ties with Israel. U.S. officials say Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton ...

Turkish PM Receives Hero's Welcome In Egypt

AP | By MAGGIE MICHAEL and LEE KEATH | Posted 11.13.2011

CAIRO -- Turkey's prime minister presented his country as a model for an Arab world in turmoil, giving advice on everything from balancing secularism ...

Erdogan in Cairo: Not a New Nasser

Dr. Josef Olmert | Posted 11.13.2011

Dr. Josef Olmert

This is the season of hot air in the Middle East and PM Erdogan of Turkey has more of his fair share of it.

Turkish Pride

Shai Baitel | Posted 11.09.2011

Shai Baitel

While Erdoğan calls Israel a "spoiled child" it seems that he is actually the spoiled child, throwing tantrums when his strategies don't work out as planned, he doesn't get his will or is actually blamed for his actions.