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Presidency of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Members of a Turkish group hold a symbolic boarding pass for 10 foreign ambassadors as they stage a protest near the US Embassy to support Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, Oct. 25, 2021. 

Turkey’s Erdoğan strategically backtracks threat to expel Western diplomats, political analyst explains

Foreign policy

Soner Cagaptay, a senior fellow with The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, joined The World’s host Carol Hills to discuss the details of Turkey’s recent diplomatic spat and how it was averted.

A man in a suit walks with a woman wearing a dark pink dress with white head covering in ornate museum with Arabic script

Whose Haghia Sophia? 

Religion
two men kick a protester on the ground

Kurdish protesters attacked by Erdoğan’s bodyguards at DC demonstration sue Turkish government

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