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It also risks raising tension in the Caucasus. An inter-governmental agreement on the Trans-Anatolian Pipeline Project (Tanap) is expected during a visit by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Azerbaijan, Rovnaq Abdullayev, president of...
There goes the one Palestinian leader who, more than any other, invited hope for a better future. And in this tour d’horizon, a word about Turkey. Once a close regional partner of Israel, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has taken the country in a...
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C) arrives for a meeting in Ankara on February 9, 2012. View Photo »
Democracy will take a beating if the doubts being felt by partners in the coalition government transform into animosity
13/02/2012 - 10:59:47 Turkey’s prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been discharged from hospital a day after undergoing what officials said was a “second and final” intestinal surgery. The Anadolu Agency said Mr Erdogan left hospital and was...
Turkey’s international star has risen steadily over the past few years, with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan being lionized in many Middle Eastern and North African countries, and Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu traveling the world as the...
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the lawmakers of his Islamic-rooted party at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. Erdogan, calling the veto at the UN Security Council a "fiasco" said his country can't remain... View Photo »
Syrian soldiers emerged from behind sandbags and cursed Recep Tayyip Erdogan when we told them we were Turks. Then they suddenly opened fire at the bus
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (b. February 26, 1954 in Rize, Turkey) is serving as the Prime Minister of Turkey since March 14, 2003. He is the chairman of the Justice and Development Party (Turkish: Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, or AKP). Full Article
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the lawmakers of his Islamic-rooted party at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. Erdogan, calling the veto at the UN Security Council a "fiasco" said his country can't remain silent to the massacre of Syrian...
View Photo »Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses lawmakers of his party at the parliament in Ankara on February 7, 2012. Erdogan today announced a new initiative with regional players to halt months-long violence in Syria after the veto of a UN draft which he said gave President...
View Photo »Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses members of his ruling AK Party in front of portraits Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (L), founder of modern Turkey, and himself during a meeting at his party headquarters in Ankara on February 1, 2012. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip...
View Photo »Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses members of his ruling AKP party in Ankara on February 1, 2012. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday warned of rising racism and Islamophobia in Europe as he once again denounced a recent French bill outlawing...
View Photo »A Turkish couple pose for a photo in front of the mausoleum of the founder of modern Turkey Kemal Ataturk in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012. For adversaries in a long-distance spat, they made an odd couple. Turkey's leader, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a brash visionary...
View Photo »People holds national flags with posters of the founder of modern Turkey Kemal Ataturk at his mausoleum in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012. For adversaries in a long-distance spat, they made an odd couple. Turkey's leader, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a brash visionary who...
View Photo »Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses lawmakers and supporters of his party at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012, a day after France's Senate voted a law that would make it a crime in France to deny that the killing of Armenians in the Ottoman...
View Photo »Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses lawmakers and supporters of his party at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012, a day after the French Senate voted to make it a crime in France to deny that the killing of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire nearly a...
View Photo »Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan salutes lawmakers and supporters of his party as he addresses at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012, a day after France's Senate voted a law that would make it a crime in France to deny that the killing of Armenians in the...
View Photo »Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses lawmakers at the parliament in Ankara on January 24, 2012. Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday slammed as discriminatory and racist a bill passed by the French Senate making denial of the Armenian genocide a crime.'The proposal adopted...
View Photo »Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and South Korea's Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan (L) pose before a meeting in Ankara January 20, 2012.
View Photo »Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right and Kim Sung-Hwan, Republic of Korea’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, shake hands before a meeting in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, Jan. 20. 2012.
View Photo »Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi seen during a meeting in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012. Salehi said Istanbul is the likely venue for further talks on his country's nuclear program with world powers that have...
View Photo »Turkish President Abdullah Gul (L), Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu (2nd-L), Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C) and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (R) attend the funeral of veteran nationalist Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash in the Turkish-occupied...
View Photo »Emine Erdogan, wife of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan cries as she speaks at a meeting of spouses of the heads of state of government, that brought together among others, Libyan leader Moamer Khadafi's daughter Aisha Moamer al-Khadafi, Pakistani First Lady Begum Fauzia...
View Photo »Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, Turkish President Abdullah Gul, center, Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu, right, the wife of Rauf Denktash Aydin, second right, with her son Serdar Denktash, third right, attend the funeral ceremony of former Turkish Cypriot leader...
View Photo »Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and Fenerbahce officials stand next to the flag-draped coffin of Lefter Kucukandonyadis, a Turkish soccer legend and the captain of Fenerbahce and national team for decades, during a funeral ceremony as about 10,000 people, bid him...
View Photo »A woman holds a placard that reads "Assasin Assad get out of Syria" as Syrians living in Turkey stage a protest outside the Syrian consulate to condemn the latest killings by Syrian regime in Syria, in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. Turkey's President Abdullah Gul and Prime...
View Photo »A woman shouts slogans as Syrians living in Turkey stage a protest outside the Syrian consulate to condemn the latest killings by Syrian regime in Syria, in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. Turkey's President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned violence...
View Photo »A woman shows her hand painted as a Syrian flag as Syrians living in Turkey stage a protest outside the Syrian consulate to condemn the latest killings by Syrian regime in Syria, in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. Turkey's President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip...
View Photo »Riot police stand at the entrance of the Syrian consulate as Syrians living in Turkey stage a protest outside the Syrian consulate to condemn the latest killings by the Syrian regime in Syria, in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. Turkey's President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister...
View Photo »Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) and Tunisia's Foreign Minister Rafik Abdessalem pose before a meeting in Ankara January 10, 2012.
View Photo »In this image released by the Prime Ministry Press Service Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and Tunisia's Foreign Minister Rafik Abdessalem seen during a meeting in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012.
View Photo »Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses his lawmakers at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012. Turkey's main People's PartyRepublican People's Party leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu on Tuesday accused the judiciary of doing the government's bidding after a...
View Photo »Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan gestures as he addresses members of the parliament from his ruling AK Party (AKP) during a meeting at the Turkish parliament in Ankara, on January 10, 2012. Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned on January 9 that civil war was looming in neighbouring...
View Photo »Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the lawmakers of his Islamic-rooted party at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. Erdogan, calling the veto at the UN Security Council a "fiasco" said his country can't remain silent to the massacre of Syrian...
View Photo »Democracy will take a beating if the doubts being felt by partners in the coalition government transform into animosity
Syrian soldiers emerged from behind sandbags and cursed Recep Tayyip Erdogan when we told them we were Turks. Then they suddenly opened fire at the bus
We say it very clearly: We will struggle against terrorism until the end, but we will also negotiate with those who prefer politics ... Those who prefer politics can talk to us, others can't.
We had stopped at a checkpoint ... Syrian soldiers emerged from behind sandbags and cursed (Turkish Prime Minister) Recep Tayyip Erdogan when we told them we were Turks. Then they suddenly opened fire at the bus.
If you have self-confidence as a leader, you go to the ballot boxes. Everyone heads to ballot boxes and you take over rule if these ballot boxes give you power. Then you can rule your country. But you cannot maintain your rule with tanks and weapons. You will also leave one day
The prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, told Al Jazeera, the pan-Arab network, that he would use his warships to prevent Israeli commandos from again boarding a Gaza-bound ship as they did last year, killing nine passengers, and from letting Israel exploit natural gas resources at sea.
Dersim is among the most tragic events in recent history. It is a disaster that should now be questioned with courage. The party that should confront this incident is not the ruling Justice and Development Party [AK Party]. It is the CHP, which is behind this bloody disaster, who should face this incide...
Externally Syria is now more isolated than ever ... The noose is now tightening around the neck of the regime. The loss of Turkey is a huge blow: not only are the two countries important trading partners but al-Assad and Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan used to be friends -- they even took vacations ...
Is it me who should apologize or you [CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu]? If there is an apology on behalf of the state and if there is such an opportunity, I can do it and I am apologizing. But if there is someone who should apologize on behalf of the CHP, it is you, as you are from Dersim. You were saying...
Dersim is the most painful and bloody [event] among tens, hundreds of disasters the CHP had caused
If it is necessary to apologize on behalf of the state, I will apologize, and I am apologizing
If it is necessary to apologise on behalf of the state... I will apologise, I am apologising
Dersim is one of the most tragic events of our near history. It is a disaster waiting to be enlightened and boldly questioned
If you want to see someone who has fought against his own people, look at Nazi Germany, [German Nazi leader Adolf] Hitler, [Italian fascist leader Benito] Mussolini, [Nicolae] Ceausescu of Romania
If there is need for an apology on behalf of the state, if there is such a practice in the books, I would apologize and I am apologizing
You can only continue with tanks and guns to a certain point, the day will come when you will go
It is not heroism to fight against your own people
For the welfare of your own people and the region, just leave that seat
Quit power before more blood is shed, for the peace of your people, your region and your country
Bashir al-Assad is saying he will fight to the death. Fighting your own people is not heroism but cowardice
Just remove yourself from that seat before shedding more blood, before torturing more and for the welfare of your country, as well as the region
interference, or a call for external intervention ... We can’t just turn our back when a people is persecuted in a country with which we have a 910-kilometer border.
Without spilling any more blood, without causing any more injustice, for the sake of peace for the people, the country and the region, finally step down
You are talking about fighting to the death
As the prime minister, I have supported and am supporting KCK operations. It is quite obvious how KCK members work as members of the organization [PKK]. The necessary action should be taken regarding the KCK issue. All these [operations] are for our unity and solidarity.
