Recep Tayip Erdogan
Politics
Turkey Faces a Runoff Vote After Most Closely Fought Election in Decades
Turkey is facing a runoff vote after neither President Recep Tayyip Erdogan nor his main rival appeared to have secured the 50% of votes needed to win the elections, preliminary election results showed.
State-run Anadolu news agency reported projections based...
Culture
Erdogan: Conversion of Hagia Sophia into Mosque "Crown of 2020"
In an address to the nation, Turkish President Erdogan called his decision to convert the Hagia Sophia into a mosque the "crown of 2020."
Diplomacy
Erdogan Goads Greece as 'Bankrupt, Finished' Country (video)
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has launched a new attack on Greece by claiming that the country is "bankrupt" and "finished".
Speaking at a pre-election rally, Erdogan blasted rating agencies that have downgraded Turkey’s sovereign rating, implying that their actions are...
Cyprus
New Geneva Talks & Cyprus
The conference for the ultimate dissolution of the Republic of Cyprus is about to start again. The same institution that has failed to implement a single one of its unanimously adopted UN Security Council Resolutions on Cyprus has organized...
Cyprus
Talks to End the Republic of Cyprus
The first round of talks between President Anastasiades and the Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci in Mont Pelerin in Switzerland raised great expectations. They finished in a euphoric mood that an agreement was within reach and a new meeting...
Cyprus
Cyprus President: Erdogan’s Statements are Unacceptable and Undermine the Climate of Confidence
President of the Republic Nicos Anastasiades has described statements made by Turkish President Tayip Erdogan on Cyprus as unacceptable, adding that they undermine the climate of confidence that is needed.
Speaking to the press following a meeting with the British...
Cyprus
Cyprus President on RIK 1: Dismissive, Elusive and Not Convincing
In preparation for this week’s visit to Mont Pelerin resort in Switzerland for a bit of “horse-trading” the President spoke on national television station RIK 1 on November 4, in an attempt to “inform” his people on the progress...
Cyprus
Referendum for Cyprus or Not
The Cyprus negotiations underway are purported to “resolve the Cyprus issue” this year and one may wonder why the urgency?
The consequence of making a wrong agreement has hardly been debated and citizens have also been kept in the dark....
Cyprus
The EU-Turkish Bazaar
Recently, the IMF EU -Troika team visited the occupied area of Cyprus to study and ascertain the costs of the illegal airport in preparation for the enormous loans Cyprus would require to meet the "reunification” costs of the island....
Cyprus
Cypriot Parliament President: We Need to Begin a Campaign to Annul Turkish Plans
The President of the Cypriot House of Representatives, Yiannakis Omirou, has denounced statements of Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan earlier today on the Cyprus problem and the hydrocarbons reserves in the island's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). At the same...