As the president’s traditional support wanes, he is seeking a risky deal with the Kurds to buy a political lifeline. But is there too much mutual mistrust for a deal?

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has dismissed his long-serving head of communications in a surprise move, a decree published in the government gazette showed on Thursday. Altun, who had headed the presidential communications directorate since 2018,

Ankara said the hundreds of detentions were owed to a wide-ranging effort to battle corruption, but the vast majority of those targeted belong to the opposition.

A Turkish court on Wednesday blocked access to chatbot Grok, operated by Elon Musk’s xAI, after it generated offensive responses about President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, founder of the republic Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and religious values.

Turkey blocked access to Elon Musk’s Grok after a court ruled that the bot insulted President Erdogan in Turkish-language responses. The post Turkey Bans Elon Musk’s Grok AI Chatbot for ‘Insulting’ President Erdoğan first appeared on Mediaite.

Turkey launched a probe into the leader of the main opposition party for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the latest phase of a crackdown that has stoked investor fears about political instability and the government’s economic programme.

The arrest of Istanbul’s mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu during a pre-dawn raid marks a new low in Turkey’s ongoing departure from democratic principles, the MENA Research Center announced just days after the mayor’s arrest.

Turkey will host NATO summit in July 2026. Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said this, according to the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet.President Erdoğan said

U.S. Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, said he will continue blocking indefinitely the transfer of Lockheed Martin F-35s purchased by Turkey during a July 9 hearing.