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“A great country like Turkey has a very small, very underdeveloped, very inadequate main opposition party,” Mr. Erdogan said on Monday. “It has become clear that you cannot trust them to run ...

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Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been running Turkey for 22 years, and has spent much of that time eroding its democracy. His government controls the courts, the security apparatus and almost all the media.

Turkey has been rocked by six nights of protests over the imprisonment of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a major rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan whose detention is widely viewed as ...

Erdoğan has been running Turkey since 2003, and he has maintained his hold on power, in part, by cracking down on political opponents and on the media. Some of those opponents come from Turkey ...

Tyler Cameron spent the weekend with Rachael Kirkconnell following her split from Matt James. “I am too @unwell to post anything significant from the weekend so here’s a dump,” Cameron ...

Turkey took a sharp turn toward full autocracy on Sunday when President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s main political rival, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, was jailed amid a major crackdown on the opposition.

Arrests were made in Turkey's largest city, Istanbul, the capital, Ankara, as well as Izmir, Adana, Antalya, Konya and several others. "There will be no tolerance for those who seek to violate ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Turkey’s government escalated its crackdown on the opposition on Thursday, detaining 37 people for social ...