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Speaking at the COP29 United Nations (UN) climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan on Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Israel should be held to account at international courts for the “environmental catastrophe” it is creating in Gaza. Erdogan said Israel’s attacks on Gaza have caused chemicals to leach into the soil and groundwater.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan criticized the West for condemning Iran’s attack but not Israel’s strike on the embassy in Damascus, which Iran has pointed to as being the cause of their attack. He called for the condemnation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying, “The one that needs to be condemned, cursed here is firstly...

Turks dealt President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his party their biggest electoral blow on Sunday in a nationwide local vote that reasserted the opposition as a political force and reinforced Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu as the president’s chief rival.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan said on Tuesday that Israel would face “grave consequences” if it banned Palestinian Muslims from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque during the coming month of Ramadan.

One person died, and five others were wounded, following an alleged “terror attack” at an Istanbul courthouse on Tuesday. The two assailants, a man and a woman — reportedly part of the leftist DHKP-C militant group — were shot dead by authorities shortly after the attack, according to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.

The U.S. and Britain carried out dozens of air strikes on Houthi military targets overnight on Thursday, widening a regional conflict stemming from Israel’s war in Gaza. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Friday he believed the strikes by U.K. and the U.S. on Houthi military targets in Yemen will degrade the capability of...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday for comments in which the latter compared him to Adolf Hitler. The exchange came as Israeli military officials and Netanyahu signalled there is no end in sight to the fighting with Hamas, even as hospitals in the Gaza Strip are in crisis...

On Saturday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan expressed his disappointment with the United States after it vetoed a proposed United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that it is Turkey’s responsibility to save Palestinians from Israeli “cruelty” and hold those who carry out attacks in Gaza accountable. Speaking in the Black Sea province of Rize, Erdogan said Turkey is doing much more on the Gaza crisis than what is seen and will never leave Palestinians...

During a Wednesday address to his AK Party, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called for a ceasefire in the Middle East and said Israel’s bombardment of Gaza amounts to a “mental illness.” He also called on all countries to avoid provoking further conflict and warned against approaching it as a conflict between two faiths.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan condemned Israel’s response to Hamas’ attack by bombing cities in Gaza — which has destroyed infrastructure, cut off humanitarian supplies and killed civilians. “Managing a conflict using every sort of embarrassing method – is not a war, it is a massacre,” he said.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan said on Sunday that the terrorists who carried out a bomb attack in front of the Interior Ministry in Ankara failed in their attempt to threaten citizens’ peace and security. Two attackers detonated a bomb in front of Turkish government buildings in Ankara on Sunday, in an assault that left both...

During the 2023 G20 New Delhi summit — and two months after Russia exited the Black Sea grain initiative — Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said a new international grain deal that did not include Russia would not be “sustainable.” Russian President Vladimir Putin quit the deal in July, only a year after the deal was...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has agreed to forward to parliament Sweden’s bid to join the NATO military alliance, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday, on the eve of a NATO summit in Vilnius. Stoltenberg declined to give a date for when Sweden’s accession would be ratified by the Turkish parliament, the grand national assembly, which...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan launched a new attack on French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday, saying he needed “treatment on the mental level” over his attitude towards Muslims and Islam.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Saturday he has ordered the foreign ministry to expel ambassadors from 10 western countries, including Canada, after they called for the release of philanthropist Osman Kavala.

Students clashed with Turkish police in Istanbul on Monday, angry over President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s appointment of a new rector at one of the country’s top universities. They claim the appointment process was undemocratic.

Asked about the U.S. commitment to Iraq’s sovereignty and interference from its Turkish and Iranian neighbours, Iraq’s Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi defended his country’s position and said Turkish attacks in Northern Iraq would not be acceptable. Meanwhile, U.S. President Trump said “I will say the U.S. and me, in particular, we have a very good...

Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday with both leaders expressing hopes of repairing ties shattered by Turkey’s downing of a Russian warplane along the Syrian border last year.

President Barack Obama has told Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan that the U.S. will work with them to help bring those behind July’s attempted coup to justice.