Tayyip Erdogan

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.

Ünal Çeviköz told Newsweek that an opposition win in the May elections would mean an "optimistic" outlook for Stockholm.

A top aide to Turkey's leading opposition candidate told Newsweek the challenger is "determined" to repair frayed bilateral relations with Washington, D.C.

Finland's president looks set to get the NATO nod from Turkey on Friday, while Sweden's bid remains stuck in limbo.

Turkey and Hungary seem to be rethinking their Russia-friendly stances.

An advisor to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Newsweek that "anti-Turkish lobbies" do "not help to strengthen Euro-Atlantic alliance."

What was supposed to be a rapid expansion of the alliance has been delayed indefinitely by deepening Turkish opposition.

Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin have both vowed to send aid and dispatch search-and-rescue teams to the stricken country.

Protests in Stockholm and elections in Ankara might mean the expansion of NATO is punted into late summer.

Turkey delivered a win for Vladimir Putin, who has opposed NATO expansion.

Russia's president told the Turkish leader that he is open to dialogue with the conditions that Ukraine agrees to his demands for ending the war.

Turkey's ambition for the 21st century is to be a global power at the intersection of Europe and Asia.

Russia resumed the Black Sea grain initiative due to pressure from emerging economies such as Turkey, the Oxford Economics think tank said.

The Russian president told a summit of leaders in Astana "we believe a revision is needed of the global financial system."

The heads of the Turkish company that makes Bayraktar TB2 drones said they support Ukraine and won't sell to Russia "no matter how much money we are offered."

For Erdogan to achieve his security goals, a former Turkish official told Newsweek that "it's unavoidable, indispensable to have a dialogue with Assad himself."

Mevlut Cavusoglu also accused European nations of trying to "sabotage" an agreement to export Ukraine grain.