On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher argued President Trump and Turkey’s President Erdogan have “a lot of parallels.” And wondered if Trump could “do this here, what Erdogan did there?” Maher began by saying, “I can’t
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit China, Russia, India, and the United States, as well as make stops in Europe during a world tour next month intended to rehabilitate his public image after a controversial referendum vote greatly expanded his executive power.
Turkey’s Supreme Election Board (YSK), the election oversight agency, dismissed a call for annulling Sunday’s referendum to adopt a presidential system after opposition parties and international observers condemned the vote as neither free nor fair.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in his first interview since Sunday’s referendum to implement a presidential system in Turkey, protested those who noted his party won the vote by a slim margin, comparing the vote to a soccer game.
Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday’s Bretibart News Daily to talk about the crisis in North Korea, and whether the Trump administration will be able to break a cycle of provocations and negotiations that stretches back for decades.
Former Breitbart News National Security Editor Dr. Sebastian Gorka, now a White House national security adviser, discussed the situation in North Korea with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily.
The largest opposition party in Turkey, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), has officially launched a request for a recount of votes in Sunday’s referendum to expand President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s executive power.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet Donald Trump in May, the Turkish foreign minister said Wednesday, after the US president congratulated the Turkish leader for winning a referendum on enhancing his powers.
Support for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan amongst Turks in Germany is much higher than in Turkey with many expatriates in Berlin saying they fully back the controversial leader.
Fears in Europe are growing that Turkey’s increasingly authoritarian Islamist president could renew demands for easy access to Europe for 75 million Turks, whilst threatening to scrap a deal which eased the migrant crisis last year.
VIENNA – Up to 2.5 million votes could have been manipulated in Sunday’s Turkish referendum which ended in a tight ‘Yes’ vote for greater presidential powers, Alev Korun, an Austrian member of the Council of Europe observer mission, told ORF radio on Tuesday.
ANKARA (AFP) – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday said Turkey could hold a referendum on its long-stalled EU membership bid after Turks voted to approve expanding his powers in a plebiscite. “For 54 years, what did they make us
Islamists around the Arab world celebrated Turkish President Reccep Tayyip Erdogan’s victory Sunday in a referendum to change governing laws and give the head of state expanded powers.
Turkey’s opposition parties are demanding a recount following Sunday’s referendum to install a presidential system of government greatly expanding the powers of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s referendum campaign was conducted on an “unlevel playing field” and the vote count itself was marred by late procedural changes that removed key safeguards, international observers said on Monday.
Contents: Sharply divided Turkey approves referendum giving Erdogan near-dictatorial powers; Turkey’s referendum results will be closely scrutinized by Europe
Shortly after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan claimed a decisive victory in Sunday’s highly controversial referendum vote to expand his powers, he issued a stern warning to opposition parties that their efforts to “belittle” the election results would “be in vain.”
Police in the Austrian capital of Vienna are on alert ahead of Sunday’s Turkish referendum and say they are prepared for any “incidents” that may occur.
ISTANBUL (AP) – The Latest on the referendum in Turkey, set to decide whether more power should be concentrated in the hands of the president.
COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — Facing harassment, enforced shutdowns and the threat of jail at home, Turkey’s journalists in exile are using Germany as a base to report on political turmoil in their country ahead of Sunday’s referendum.
Ercan Karakoyun looks twice over his shoulder when he leaves his Berlin home to make sure nobody is following him.
Turkey on Friday welcomed a US missile strike on a Syrian regime airbase in retaliation for a suspected chemical attack, calling for a no-fly zone in the country to prevent further bloodshed.
Turkey’s Kurdish minority is suffering from a “slow-motion genocide” at the hands of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government as he pushes the country towards an “authoritarian system of governance,” the U.S. representative of a pro-Kurdish opposition party told a House panel.
THE HAGUE (AFP) – Turkish voters based in The Netherlands started casting early ballots Wednesday in a referendum which could boost President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s powers, amid an ongoing diplomatic spat between Ankara and Europe.
WASHINGTON – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu told Breitbart News that, while his country does not have “any problems with the Kurds,” they are not amenable to an independent, Kurdish state at the moment.
On Monday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Turkish voters living in Europe they could strike a blow against the “grandchildren of Nazism” by supporting the referendum to give him more power.
Turkish migrants opposed to the Erdogan regime in their homeland and now living in Europe are increasingly concerned about the radicalisation of their fellow migrants, and the potential for a “civil war” in Europe. Speaking to best-selling Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung,
The Netherlands is on high alert after a number of Kurds were attacked and stabbed outside the Turkish consulate in Brussels while trying to cast their votes in a referendum on increasing the powers of President Erdoğan. Supporters of the Islamist
The head of Turkey’s leftist, anti-Islamist Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) announced this week that he will begin a hunger strike from prison where he is awaiting trial for allegedly supporting terrorists.
The Turkish Security Council and Prime Minister Binali Yildirim announced Thursday that Turkey would officially conclude “Euphrates Shield,” a military operation begun in August to keep the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia from inching too close to the Turkish border.
During an interview Monday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan argued that the founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, would vote “yes” in the upcoming referendum to expand Erdoğan’s presidential power by abolishing the Prime Minister’s office and replacing it with a vice president, among other reforms.
In an interview with Breitbart News, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu denied that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had personally shut down any media outlets in the country, claiming the widespread police raids against media outlets were the product of judiciary orders.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu says Turkey has been “very clear” in explaining its presence in Syria: to defeat the Islamic State.
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak said on Sunday that a new wave of migrants is on its way from Iran to Turkey, three million strong, and they might not be planning to stop in Turkey.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan currently wields significant power but “no responsibility,” adding that the upcoming April 16 referendum is designed to change that, during a sit-down interview with Breitbart News at the National Press Club in D.C. on Tuesday.
ISTANBUL (AFP) – Turkey summoned the Swiss ambassador on Sunday to protest at a Kurdish rally in Bern which Ankara dubbed a “terrorist gathering”, a diplomatic source said.
The hipster-right Identitarian youth movement in Austria hung a large banner on the Turkish embassy in Vienna telling Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to take his supporters back home to Turkey.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry announced Wednesday that it had officially summoned the chargé d’affaires at the Russian embassy to protest an attack that left one Turkish soldier dead, killed by fighters allied to the Syrian People’s Democratic Union (PYD), which is allied with Russia.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has warned the European Union (EU) that if the diplomatic spat between Turkey and several European countries continues, Europeans won’t be able to walk their own streets safely.
BERLIN (AP) — The European Union official overseeing the bloc’s expansion efforts says Turkish membership will become “more and more unrealistic” unless Ankara changes course soon.
