His predicament is entirely of his own making: in the early hours of March 19, Erdogan orchestrated a raid on the home of ...

Many in Turkey have criticized the government's slow response and see the election as a referendum on it. There are also implications on the world stage: Turkey, which straddles Europe and the ...

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 ...

Erdogan has led Turkey for 22 years, and been president for the past 11, but cannot run again without changing the rules.

The international community does not seem poised to prevent Erdogan from setting Turkey on the path to autocracy.

“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 ...

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 ...

Under the current constitution, Mr Erdogan cannot run again unless early elections are called or the legal framework is ...

Turkey has played a critical role in NATO security since its 1952 ascension to the alliance. Now the organization has few ...

Power is being centralised through legal means such as referendums, manipulated court rulings and selective prosecutions ...