Friday, May 17, 2024

Topic: Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Netanyahu no different than Hitler, says Turkey’s Erdogan

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has compared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler, likening Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza to Nazi Germany’s mass killing of Jews.

UN Security Council needs to be reformed: Turkey’s Erdogan

Turkey’s President Erdogan has called for the United Nations Security Council to be reformed, decrying the fact that the United States could veto a ceasefire proposal for Gaza despite huge support from other countries.

Israel is a terrorist state, says Turkey’s Erdogan

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Israel a “terror state” that is committing war crimes and violating international law in Gaza.

“Hamas is not a terrorist group, but a group of fighters, defending homeland,” says Turkey’s Erdogan

In his address to parliament on Wednesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Palestinian resistance group Hamas as “liberators” who are fighting to “protect their lands and people.”

From voting to victory: A visual essay on the Turkish elections

As a political anthropologist, I have observed and written about theories and practices of democracy across the continents – Australia, Europe, India, the USA and beyond. It is this very interest, which took me to a polling booth during the second round of the 2023 Turkish Presidential elections for which the voting took place on Sunday, 29 May.

Turkey’s Erdogan wins Turkey’s election run-off, says state media

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan appeared to be headed for victory in Turkey's runoff election on Sunday, with data from both the state-run Anadolu agency...