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Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said there is ‘no such thing as LGBT’ after activists clashed with police during a month-long protest at an Istanbul university. ‘The LGBT, there is no such thing,’ Erdoğan said during a televised address to his ruling Justice and Development Party (AK) on Wednesday. ‘This country is… moral, and … Read more
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for a boycott of French goods and compared Europe’s treatment of Muslims to the way Jews were treated before the Second World War. ‘You are in a real sense fascists, you are in a real sense the links in the chain of Nazism,’ Erdogan said Monday in a … Read more
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said the actions of Turkey and Azerbaijan amounted to a ‘terroristic attack’ over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region that formed part of the continuation of Armenian genocide. ‘What we are facing is an Azeri-Turkish international terroristic attack,’ Pashinyan said. ‘To me there is no doubt that this is a policy … Read more
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Greece to enter talks over disputed eastern Mediterranean territorial claims or face the consequences. At a hospital’s opening ceremony in Istanbul, he said: ‘They’re either going to understand the language of politics and diplomacy, or in the field with painful experiences.’ Ankara is currently facing off against Greece and … Read more
Turkish President Recep Erdogan on Friday ordered another ancient Orthodox church that became a mosque and then a popular Istanbul museum to be converted back into a place of Muslim worship. The decision to transform the Kariye Museum into a mosque came just a month after a similarly controversial conversion for the UNESCO World Heritage-recognised … Read more
Turkey’s President Erdogan turns another ancient Istanbul church into a mosque a month after converting the city’s famed Hagia Sophia into a place of Muslim worship The Kariye Museum, like its bigger neighbour Hagia Sophia, will be converted Turkey’s top administrative court approved Kariye’s conversion in November The changes reflect Erdogan’s efforts to appeal to … Read more
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to retaliate after suggesting a Turkish ship had been attacked in waters contested by Greece. The claim came hours after France sent two warships supported by fighter jets to the region experiencing mounting tensions, in an effort to back Greece. Speaking at an event to celebrate the 19th anniversary of … Read more
Istanbul’s iconic former cathedral Hagia Sophia is transformed into a mosque by President Erdogan as he drums of support for his Islamic-rooted party – sparking fury from Christian groups and the US. On Friday Turkey’s highest administrative court issued a ruling that will pave the way for the government to convert the sixth century building, … Read more
Erdogan vows to crack down on social media in Turkey after torrent of abuse aimed at his daughter and son-in-law on Twitter The Turkish president vowed to tighten government control over social media This comes after Erdogan’s daughter Esra was allegedly insulted on Twitter Her husband Berat Albayrak announced the birth of their fourth child … Read more
President Tayyip Erdogan said today he would not stop migrants trying to cross Turkey’s border into Greece before advising Athens ‘these people won’t stay in Greece’ and to ‘let them pass into other European countries’. Tens of thousands of migrants have been trying to get into Greece, a European Union member state, since Turkey said on … Read more