The war on Kurds is good news for Erdogan – here’s why
No president likes to be called a fool, least of all Tayyip Erdogan. He is a man who jails people…
How Europe’s Turks could sweep Erdogan to victory
President Erdogan can raise a crowd. As he travels to every corner of his huge country in the month before…
President Erdogan’s Syrian dilemma
Istanbul It is a bad time to have an ally on the fence. With US military action in Syria looking…
The political similarities between Erdogan and Corbyn
Jeremy Corbyn’s loyalists might howl at the suggestion that his style is similar to President Erdogan’s. But they would do…
Erdogan is unravelling Ataturk’s legacy
If there is a place in Turkey where Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the swaggering six-foot president, looks small it is at…
Cypriot reunification still seems a distant prospect
In the early hours of this morning, the tired-looking Secretary General of the UN took to the stage in Switzerland…
The Grenfell Tower blaze was a disaster waiting to happen
Those images from the early hours of Wednesday – fire shooting up the side of a tower block, with desperate…
Trump and Erdogan: the new populists
Istanbul The most dramatic part of President Erdogan’s visit to Washington this week was the punch-up between his security guards…
Erdogan keeps winning because his opponents never learn
Istanbul President Erdogan hardly swept to victory yesterday. But with 51 per cent of the electorate turning out in favour…
President Erdogan’s nationalist game plan
Ask any two Turkish nationalists how they will vote in their country’s upcoming referendum, and you’re likely to get two…
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