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Turkey's Erdogan tells supporters he does not 'recognise' LGBT

Turkey's government, led by Erdogan and his Islamist-rooted AK Party, has toughened its stance on LGBTQ freedoms in recent months, particularly while campaigning for this year's elections...

FILE PHOTO: President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers his messages to the journalists in G20 Summit's news conference in Media Center, BICC, Nusa Dua, Badung Regency, Bali, Indonesia, November 16, 2022. ADITYA PRADANA PUTRA/G20 Media Center/Handout via REUTERS
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Turkey 'no longer expects anything' from EU, president Erdogan says

Russian President Vladimir Putin. File Photo: Sputnik/Gavriil Grigorov/Kremlin via REUTERS
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Putin tells Turkey's Erdogan: we're ready to discuss the grain deal

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan shake hands during a meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan September 16, 2022. Sputnik/Alexander Demyanchuk/Pool via REUTERS
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Turkey's Erdogan holds talks with Putin in Russia on grain, gas

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson shake hands next to NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg prior to their meeting, on the eve of a NATO summit, in Vilnius, Lithuania July 10, 2023. REUTERS/Yves Herman/Pool
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Turkey gives green light to Swedish NATO membership bid

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Europe

'Ukraine deserves NATO membership': Erdogan

FILE PHOTO: President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers his messages to the journalists in G20 Summit's news conference in Media Center, BICC, Nusa Dua, Badung Regency, Bali, Indonesia, November 16, 2022. ADITYA PRADANA PUTRA/G20 Media Center/Handout via REUTERS
Europe

Turkey's Erdogan to host Putin, hopes for Black Sea grain deal extension

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan shakes hands with the new Treasury and Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek as they are flanked by new Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar during a press conference where the new cabinet was announced, in Ankara, Turkey June 3, 2023. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
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Turkey's Erdogan signals economic U-turn in picking orthodox Simsek

urkey's President Tayyip Erdogan attends a meeting with Russia's President Vladimir Putin (not pictured) on the sidelines of the 6th summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-building Measures in Asia (CICA), in Astana, Kazakhstan October 13, 2022. Sputnik/Vyacheslav Prokofyev/Pool via REUTERS
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Erdogan to be sworn in for third term as Turkish president

A Turkish Air Force F16 jet lands at a new airport under construction in Istanbul, Turkey September 22, 2018. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
USA

Biden says he and Erdogan talked about F-16s, Sweden's NATO bid

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What 5 more years of Erdogan's rule means for Turkey

A person holds a ballot at a polling station in Ankara, Turkey May 28, 2023. REUTERS/Yves Herman
Politics

Voting starts in Turkey presidential election runoff

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan addresses his supporters during a rally ahead of the May 14 presidential and parliamentary elections, in Izmir, Turkey April 29, 2023. Presidential Press Office/Handout via REUTERS
Politics

Erdogan positioned to extend rule in Turkey runoff election