Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan emphasized that Türkiye's high-level dialogue with the United States will remain consistent, irrespective of the outcome of the upcoming U.S. presidential election.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sharply criticized Israel on Sept. 21, accusing it of acting like a "terrorist organization" in its ongoing attacks on Gaza.

"Once again, unfortunately, Israel is not organizing attacks like a state, but like a terrorist organization," Erdoğan said at Atatürk Airport ahead of his trip to the U.S. for a U.N. General Assembly meeting.

Attacks on Lebanon this week showed that the Israeli government planned to spread the war to the region, Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday, calling on Western countries to take "deterrent steps" against Israel's actions.

Erdogan told a press conference that Israel's war in Gaza will top the agenda of his speech at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will attend the 79th U.N. General Assembly where he will address other world leaders on current global issues, particularly the ongoing Israeli massacres against civilians in Gaza and the West Bank.

A team of 60 medical professionals has successfully separated 8-month-old conjoined twins from Pakistan after two-stage operations lasting about 14 hours in Ankara.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will travel to New York on Saturday to participate in the 79th UN General Assembly, where he is also expected to meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Sept. 20 his administration aims to ensure complete domestic production within Türkiye's defense sector.

"We will continue our work until we reach the goal of a fully independent Türkiye in the defense industry," Erdoğan said during an event at Istanbul Airport.

The United States must take a firmer stance toward Turkey and stop underestimating the growing anti-American sentiment in the country, according to Steven Cook, Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in Washington, in this interview with Kathimerini.

Devlet Bahçeli, the leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has criticized the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) for asking early elections in late 2025.

"[CHP Chairman] Özgür Özel's call for early polls is an eclipse of reason and a delusion," Bahçeli said at a press conference he held on Sept. 19 in the Turkish capital.

Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has drawn a connection between Türkiye's growing relations with the BRICS group of emerging economies and the country's long-stalled membership talks with the European Union.