Mr. Imamoglu’s arrest in March signaled something new: that in elections in Turkey, popular opposition politicians may simply not be allowed to run. Mr. Erdogan appeared to be borrowing from the ...

Though Erdogan and his inner circle have rejected this term, the Turkish leader has frequently made references to the Turkish people as "descendants of the Ottomans" when rallying support for the AKP.

Mr. Erdogan has been elected president three times since 2014, after serving as prime minister since 2003; however, this is considered his second term under the new presidential system put in ...

Ecuador's re-elected President Daniel Noboa was sworn in Saturday for a four-year term at a ceremony in the capital Quito. President of the National Assembly Niels Olsen took Noboa’s oath of ...

ANKARA, Turkey — A Turkish court on Wednesday convicted a Swedish journalist of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Joakim Medin was given an 11-month suspended prison term, a media rights ...

ANKARA, Turkey — The PKK Kurdish militant group announced Monday that it will disband and disarm as part of a new peace initiative with Turkey, ending four decades of armed conflict. World ...

Daniel Noboa, Ecuador’s youngest-ever president and heir to a prominent banana-exporting fortune, has been sworn in for his first full term in office, pledging to intensify his government’s ...

Ecuador's president says country is at war with drug gangs 03:15. QUITO – Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa was officially sworn in on Saturday following his reelection for another four-year term ...

Ankara: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is trying to eliminate the opposition and is emerging as the new dictator of the country. As per reports, at the behest of Erdogan, Turkish ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Protests that erupted across Turkey following the arrest of Istanbul’s opposition mayor — the main challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — took a new direction ...

A Turkish court on Wednesday convicted a Swedish journalist of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Joakim Medin was given an 11-month suspended prison term, a media rights group said, but he ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish court on Wednesday convicted a Swedish journalist of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Joakim Medin was given an 11-month suspended prison term, a media ...