The Wall Street Journal
| May 16, 2013
President Obama, speaking at a joint press conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, says that Turkey and the U.S. agree that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad must give up power to a transitional government.
Euronews
| Feb 13, 2013
A deadly bombing at a checkpoint on the Turkish-Syrian border was a provocation that will not go unpunished, Turkey's prime minister warns. Fourteen people were killed and dozens of others were injured when a Syrian minibus exploded at the checkpo...
Al Jazeera English
| Jun 26, 2012
There have been strong words from Turkey but a more muted response from NATO, four days after Syria shot down a Turkish fighter jet. Turkey's Prime Minister says his country will retaliate, if any Syrian military unit approaches its border. ...
— May 16 at 03:33 pm
...A Turkish Cypriot declaration of independence in 1983 is recognised only by Turkey, which maintains 35,000 troops there. Turkey doesn't recognis...
— Mar 14 at 04:08 pm
...increasingly wary of his domineering ways, an ever-more restive Kurdish population, and a problematic regional alignment in which, as Ian O. Les...
— Sep 29, 2012 at 04:32 am
...Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has signaled that he will negotiate with Kurdish rebels after months of deadly violence from Kurdish r...
— Jul 19, 2012 at 09:55 pm
...from [northern Iraq],” Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told reporters in Istanbul late July 19. Erdoğan’s statement came after Baghdad vowed...
The Prime Minister of Turkey is the head of government in Turkish politics. The prime minister is the leader of a political coalition in the Turkish parliament and the leader of the cabinet.
The current prime minister of Turkey is Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. He leads a cabinet of the Justice and Development Party.
The prime minister has the power to dissolve the parliament and thus force a new election, which he is obligated to do within four years of the previous elections.
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