President Tayyip Erdogan

  • Erdogan lifts objections to Finland’s Nato bid

    by Abbas Adil

    President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that Turkiye’s parliament will begin ratifying Finland’s Nato bid, but not that of Sweden, removing the biggest remaining hurdle to enlarging the Western defence…

  • Erdogan drops idea to postpone elections

    by Abbas Adil

    President Tayyip Erdogan’s government is inclined to hold Turkiye’s elections as scheduled in June, having cooled on the idea of postponing due to this month’s devastating earthquake, three officials said…

  • Six dead, 53 wounded in Istanbul explosion

    by Abbas Adil

    Six people were killed and 53 others were wounded on Sunday when an explosion rocked a busy pedestrian street in central Istanbul in an incident President Tayyip Erdogan called a…