Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Will Turkey intervene in Iran?

4 March 2026 11:23 pm

Even as Iran lashes out with missile and drone strikes against its wealthy Arab rivals in the Gulf, three neighbours…

iran deal

Get ready for the return of the Iran Deal

17 August 2020 1:36 am

The Trump administration has the first successful foreign policy of any administration since that of George H.W. Bush. It must…

Turkey’s triumph

7 May 2016 9:00 am

President Erdogan has the EU’s leaders exactly where he wants them

Putin’s great game

20 February 2016 9:00 am

In Syria, the Russian leader is on the verge of his biggest – and riskiest – coup yet

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Turkey’s climate of fear

30 January 2016 9:00 am

President Erdogan’s increasingly tyrannical regime is suppressing the truth about its war on the Kurds

Turkey goes cold

18 October 2014 9:00 am

Turkey has long been a bridge between the West and the Middle East. Its record on free speech may be…

A demonstration in Istanbul against the ban on Twitter, 22 March 2014

Forever on the march

5 April 2014 9:00 am

On a recent weekend I was thinking of taking my sons to downtown Istanbul to do some bazaar browsing. ‘Bad…