by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 10, 2015 | World
Ankara, Bloomberg—Hakan Fidan, the head of Turkey’s intelligence agency and a close confidante of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for more than a decade, has decided to enter politics in a move that Erdoğan said he opposed. Fidan’s resignation February 7...
by Thair Abbas | Dec 19, 2013 | Middle East
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Wednesday that the arrests of a number of people close to his government in a corruption inquiry amounted to a “dirty operation” against his government. A total of 52 people, including three...
by Thair Abbas | Nov 28, 2013 | Middle East
Istanbul, Asharq Al-Awsat—Ankara and Tehran reached agreements on bilateral cooperation in several fields, including the Syrian crisis and Egypt, this week during Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu’s visit to the Iranian capital. In a joint press...
by Samir Salha | Oct 23, 2013 | Opinion
We do not know if David Ignatius has been waiting patiently for over four years to avenge himself on Recep Tayyip Erdoğan who walked off in anger from a panel that he was hosting at Davos in 2009. However, what we do know is that the famous US writer, and one of the...
