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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

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March 2025

  • Man in a mask holding a Turkish flag lifts his arms in front of a line of riot police as a crowd of people head towards a blossoming tree at night

    I’ve never seen such clampdowns in Istanbul. Turkey’s democracy is fighting for its life

    Orhan Pamuk
  • A police officer kicks a flare during a protest in Istanbul on 21 March 2025 against the arrest of the city’s mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu.

    The Guardian view on Turkey’s protests: a rejection of Erdoğan’s autocracy

  • Ece Temelkuran

    In Turkey, we are showing the world how to challenge a callous, authoritarian leader

    Ece Temelkuran
  • Protests on the streets of Istanbul.

    ‘It’s disinformation’: Turkish state TV avoids any coverage of mass street protests

  • Eight journalists covering anti-government protests held in Turkey

  • Ekrem İmamoğlu: jailed rival to Turkish president who could emerge stronger

  • Journalists among more than 1,100 arrested in Turkey crackdown

  • Huge protests as Istanbul mayor jailed on day of likely presidential nomination

  • Protests continue as Istanbul mayor jailed on day of likely presidential nomination – video

  • Turkey’s protests over Istanbul mayor grow into ‘fight about democracy’

  • Crowds defy public protests ban after Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu detained – video

  • ‘This is about injustice’: crowds defy ban to protest over Istanbul mayor’s detention

  • Istanbul mayor arrested days before likely presidential nomination

February 2025

  • A poster of Abdullah Öcalan is held up by supporters in Diyarbakir, Turkey, after his statement on 27 February 2025.

    The Guardian view on Turkey and the PKK: an elusive peace is in view once more

    Editorial: Abdullah Öcalan’s call for fighters to disarm is an important moment. But a lasting resolution will require greater rights for Kurds

January 2025

  • Paul Taylor

    Can Erdoğan forge a new bromance with Trump? His future may depend on it

    Paul Taylor
    If the Turkish strongman clashes with Israel over Syria he will be blamed for wrecking Trump’s plans to pacify and disengage from the region

December 2024

  • Members of the Syrian community in Istanbul celebrate the fall of Bashar al-Assad, 8 December 2024.

    The balance of power is shifting in the Middle East – and it is Turkey’s ‘full moon’ on the rise

    Hassan Hassan
    Ankara’s support of Syria’s rebels was a strategic triumph that confirms it is replacing Iran as the regional powerhouse, says Hassan Hassan, editor-in-chief of New Lines magazine
  • Syrian people living in Istanbul hold up a banner showing Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, as they celebrate the end of Bashar al-Assad’s reign.

    ‘Ankara is getting what it wants’: how Erdoğan’s balancing act in Syria paid off

    Turkey tried to stall the HTS rebels’ offensive but has now become Syria’s ‘gateway to the outside world’

    • The world failed to save Syria. Now its people must be free to chart their own path

      Simon Tisdall

    • The Guardian view on the fall of Assad: a tumultuous, fragile hope in Syria

    • As Assad’s power crumbles, Turkey, Iran and Russia disagree on way forward for Syria

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