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Turkish voters will decide on Sunday who will lead Turkey as president for the next five years. If the widely expected comes to pass, that person will be Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has governed the country since 2003. He narrowly missed the 50% threshold on the first round of voting that would have landed him the presidency on May 14.

When it comes to defense and military capability in the 21st century, it is clear that Europe is not pulling its weight. Spending and investment in defense across Europe has steadily declined since the end of the Cold War. The political will to deploy troops into harm’s way when it is in the national interest has all but evaporated for most EU countries.

Turkey's national elections are shaping up to be the toughest test of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's long political career.

Turkey's national elections on Sunday look set to be the toughest test of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's long political career.

The EU’s ‘friends in need’ have supported it through the energy crisis. The bloc must now balance buying more gas with helping supplier states develop clean…

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's criticism of the recent military coup and the brutal crackdown on protesters in Egypt has sparked an angry diplomatic row between Ankara and Cairo. Some feel Turkey risks isolating itself in the region. Erdogan aide Ibrahim Kalin, on the other hand, prefers to speak of "precious loneliness". Ayhan Simsek has the details

World must act fast if we are to keep the precarious situation in Syria and Turkey from falling apart

U.S. concerns about Ankaras relations with the Kremlin have been exacerbated by the war in Ukraine...

ATHENS - Although Turkey and the Turkish-Cypriots don't want, Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades said the European Union should take part in trying to reunify the island split by unlawful Turkish invasions in 1974. He made the suggestion at the European People’s Party leaders meeting in Athens

The 73-page report, “‘No One Asked Me Why I Left Afghanistan,’ says that Turkey has stepped up pushbacks and deportations to Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover there in August 2021. Human Rights Watch also found that that Afghans inside Turkey are being blocked from registering for international protection and that Afghans facing imminent deportation are often given no opportunity to make refugee claims. As of October 20, 2022, the Presidency of Migration Management in Turkey’s Inter...