Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

The Turkish diplomatic delegation might have sold the U.N. gathering as the marked moment of a new pivot, but we should not miss the bigger picture.

"It's quite obvious that this war is going to last a long time," Turkey's leader, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said on Monday.

The Russian leader was asked about his invasion of Ukraine during a press conference with Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Azerbaijan's actions have undermined one international law after the other, but it seems that dictators don't care about humanitarian law.

Putin, who has been left waiting in the past by other world leaders, is hosting dozens of African nations in St. Petersburg this week.

Russian commentators are unhappy with Turkey's recent political moves, leading to Moscow exiting an important grain deal.

Kyiv and Moscow are fighting for the ear of Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as a grain export security deal nears collapse.

A former NATO supreme allied commander warned there's a risk of confrontation between NATO ships and Russia's navy if the latter "acts recklessly."

The two-day NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, has reinforced allies' pledges to increase defense spending and continue to support Ukraine.

The leaders of Hungary and Turkey, considered close to Vladimir Putin, have dropped objections to Sweden joining NATO, dealing a blow to the Russian leader.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday agreed to send Sweden's NATO accession protocol to the Turkish parliament "as soon as possible."

Turkey agreeing to advance Sweden's NATO membership bid is a "severe setback" for Russian President Vladimir Putin, one expert told Newsweek.

Joe Biden is working on a plan to bring Erdoğan round on Swedish NATO membership as the expansion debate drags on.

"Within 10 days I will burn the Iraqi flag and the Quran in front of Iraq's embassy in Stockholm."

The country is in the throes of a serious economic crisis.

The Russian president has left the country only twice since his troops invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022.

Why are elections so tight almost everywhere? It's a metaphysical mystery of our time.

While the West would be wise to expect more of the same from Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Brussels and Washington must not abandon the 25 million Turks who voted for an alternative.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has served in a mediating role between Russia and Ukraine, won reelection on Sunday.

The U.S. media seems to want to export its own problems—probably the best sign that democracy is alive and well in Turkey.

Erdogan is an authoritarian—what commentators used to call a "strongman." That there will be a May 28 presidential runoff vote between Erdogan and his chief opponent, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, doesn't change that fact.

The country is the leading requester of content removal, and also floods the platform with pro-government accounts.

"Turkey is a highly polarized country and Erdogan....intensified that polarization as part of his style of governance," said expert Howard Eissenstat.

Polls show President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is trailing the main opposition contender, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu.

Former GOP Representative Adam Kinzinger called Musk a "free speech absolutist" for "censoring content from the anti-authoritarian Turkish side."

Accusations of foreign meddling have preceded Turkey's upcoming presidential election.

Allegations against Moscow by tKemal Kilicdaroglu echo those made following Donald Trump's 2016 election victory.

James Jeffrey, an expert on Turkish-Russian relations said that Putin likes to deal with leaders he thinks are "strong and predictable" and think like him.

Twitter users, including Ukrainian official Anton Gerashchenko, shared a clip that allegedly shows Putin heading to the Kremlin in Moscow late at night.

Not clearly evil, but posing a menace to liberal democracy, figures like Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan take on a confounding and oddly popular shade of gray.