Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Turkey is busy electing a president. Will Recep Tayyip Erdoğan climb the stairs to become the first popularly elected president of the country; or will Ekmelettin İhsanoğlu, the former Islamic Development Organization (ISO) secretary-general and joint candidate of the two parliamentary opposition parties make a surprise and become the president? What about the Kurdish votes?

Turkish government submitted on June 26 a much-awaited bill to boost the ongoing Kurdish resolution process, providing a legal framework to talks and immunity to those who are involved in the negotiations.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will almost certainly be announced next week as the ruling party's candidate for August's presidential election, deputy prime minister Bülent Arınç said on June 25.
        

The ongoing efforts to find the Kurdish problem a peaceful solution should not be a part of a political bargain, the Peoples’ Democracy Party (HDP) co-leader Selahattin Demirtaş says The ongoing efforts to find a peaceful solution to the Kurdish problem should not be part of a “political bargain,” Peoples’ Democracy Party (HDP) co-leader Selahattin Demirtaş has said in an inter

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s dismissal of President Abdullah Gül’s congratulatory message to Egypt’s new President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi – even if he did not mention Gül by name - as “meaningless” may be a criticism of Gül. It could also mean that Gül and Erdoğan are playing the good policeman-bad policeman game here.

Turkey’s top two political veterans will shortly sit down for a final consultation concerning the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) candidate for the country’s first ever directly elected president in August.

Turkish Foreign Minister Davutoğlu says that the relations between Ankara and Yerevan might enter into a ‘new era’ if Armenian diaspora decides to take ‘bold steps’ similar to one Ankara has taken Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has stated that Turkey believes Armenia and the Armenian diaspora will choose to take “bold steps” like the one Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğ

A Republican People’s Party (CHP) lawmaker has been summoned by a Turkish court, following a complaint filed by Saudi businessman Yasin al-Qadi, a controversial figure who is known for his closeness to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and who is accused of financing al-Qaeda. Al-Qadi’s name was also included in the list of suspects in the Dec. 25 corruption probe.

Turkish Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci has taken to social media to censure the Central Bank’s decision to reduce interest rates by 0.75 points, accusing the institution of jeopardizing growth and raising economic vulnerability.

Sources in Ankara say it was an undisclosed poll, allegedly showing more than 52 percent of popular support for Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to become the candidate for the presidential elections, as the reason behind his decision to go for it.