Turkey’s demonstrators have claimed affinity with the pro-democracy protesters of Egypt’s Tahrir Square and taken to calling the country’s largest city “Resistanbul.”
“But Taksim was never Tahrir, let alone Tiananmen, because Turkey is not a dictatorship,” says a prominent …
“Turkish riot police fought running battles with pockets of protesters overnight, clearing the central Istanbul square that has been the focus of nearly two weeks of protests against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan,” Reuters reports:
The United States, which has …
“The rapid unraveling of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s image at home has spilled into Egypt in what experts say is a warning to Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood as they balance the need to meet …
The world’s liberal democracies bear at least indirect responsibility for the challenge emerging from authoritarian or semi-authoritarian states, according to a prominent analyst.
The recent Freedom House report, “Freedom in the World 2013: Democratic Breakthroughs in the Balance,” highlights “a paradoxical situation in which democracy across the globe …
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has dismissed the Gezi Park protesters as “bums”, “looters”, and “extremists.”
But according to a survey of 3,000 people by Istanbul’s private Bilgi University, over half of participants said they have never previously participated …
If Turkey’s illiberal premier is elected president next year, the country “could find itself with an authoritarian, charismatic presidential system resembling Russia’s or Venezuela’s,” says a leading analyst.
The current protests “reflect a much deeper resistance to the political …
“It seems strange that the biggest challenge to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s authority during more than a decade in power would begin as a small environmental rally, Council on Foreign Relations analysts Steven A. Cook, and …
New restrictions on the sale and advertising of alcohol in Turkey are “prompting outcry from citizens concerned about the creeping Islamization of the country,” reports suggest.
Opposition lawmakers accused Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (above) and his ruling AK party …
US President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) today discussed how to bolster the Syrian opposition and initiate a political transition.
“We’re going to keep increasing the pressure on the Assad regime, and working with …
Turkey finally became a “dialogue partner” of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) last week, providing Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (above) with a strategic counterbalance to NATO and a potential alternative to European Union membership.
“With this choice, Turkey is …