"Israel is now a baby-killer country," Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Nov. 12. Three days later, he told his party conference, "I say with a clear conscience that Israel is a terrorist state."
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Hungary's capital in December, his second trip to Budapest this year at a time when both countries remain the only NATO members not to have ratified Sweden's accession into the trans-Atlantic military alliance.
Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won reelection Sunday, according to unofficial results, in a victory that extends his increasingly authoritarian rule into a third decade as the country reels from high inflation and the aftermath of an earthquake that leveled entire cities.
The third-placed contender in the Turkish presidential elections on Monday formally endorsed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the upcoming runoff vote to be held on May 28th.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sought to project confidence Sunday in a close election that could end his two-decade hold on power in the predominantly Muslim country that comprises NATO's second-largest military force.