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His predicament is entirely of his own making: in the early hours of March 19, Erdogan orchestrated a raid on the home of ...
The international community does not seem poised to prevent Erdogan from setting Turkey on the path to autocracy.
Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday will have President Recep Tayyip Erdogan facing unprecedented challenges that could end his two-decade rule. Voters will decide the ...
Turkey’s long-term leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan is going up against opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu in Sunday’s run-off presidential election. The build-up to the first round suggested ...
Under the current constitution, Mr Erdogan cannot run again unless early elections are called or the legal framework is ...
“This is an election for those defending democracy against authoritarian rule,” he told TIME in an exclusive interview in April. The opposition leader has also promised to reform Turkey’s ...
The election could have sweeping ramifications for the fate of democracy in the country and beyond. May 14’s vote was among Turkey’s most closely contested elections in years — though it was ...
In early 1946, Inonu called for snap elections in parliament, the first to feature multiparty competition in Turkey. But the ruling CHP won by a wide margin — their opponents unable to ...
Turkey's president says he has appointed a team of legal experts to start working on a new constitution which critics say could allow him to remain in power beyond 2028, when his current term ends ...