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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan states his intention to invite Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for talks in Turkey with the intention of restoring relations between the two countries.
2024-07-7

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announces a two-week partial lockdown across Turkey on Ramadan, which includes an expanded curfew from 7:00 p.m. and a ban on non-essential inter-city travel beginning tomorrow evening due to an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases.
2021-04-13

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announces his country will resume energy exploration activities in the eastern Mediterranean, saying Greece had repeatedly violated their agreement on the matter.
2020-08-7

Syrian Army shelling kills Turkish military personnel in Idlib Governorate, prompting retaliation by Turkish forces. A pro-opposition war monitor says the Turkish retaliation killed 13 Syrian soldiers, which Syria denies. The Russian Ministry of Defence says Turkey moved troops "inside the de-escalation zone [...] without notifying the Russian side". Turkish President Erdoğan says the Syrian shelling killed five Turkish soldiers and three civilian personnel, with nine others injured, and that the Russians "need to stand aside".
2020-02-3

Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, presidents of Russia and Turkey respectively, reach an agreement in Sochi, which would end Turkey's offensive into Northern Syria.
2019-10-22

Police say an improvised explosive device exploded overnight at a Unicredit bank in Bologna, with the bomber leaving behind graffiti criticising Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
2018-04-10

Amnesty International releases a report criticizing the rise of populist leaders such as Donald Trump of the United States, Viktor Orbán of Hungary, Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey.
2017-02-22

Voters in Turkey go to the polls for the first round of voting in a presidential election with current Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan poised for a first round victory.
2014-08-10

Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accuses American and Israeli influence of being the ouster of Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi; which are denied by both.
2013-08-20

One policeman is killed and another injured when Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's convoy is attacked after a campaign rally in northern Turkey; Erdoğan was not in the convoy at the time of the attack.
2011-05-4