Mustafa Kemal

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has vowed to remain active if he is elected president.

"I'm not leaving you. I'm not pausing to serve. I'm not going to rest. In contrary, I'm nominated to a higher post to serve you, my country and my nation, better," Erdoğan said during his first presidential campaign rally in the Black Sea city of Samsun on July 5. 

Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, the joint presidential candidate of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), started his official campaign June 30 by visiting Anıtkabir, where the Turkish Republic’s founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is buried.

Sometimes the three most unrelated words can tell you a lot about a country when they are found on the news on the same day.

Ankara Mayor Melih Gökçek’s nearly two million Twitter followers had a surprise this morning, with tweets inviting them for a delicious simit in the city’s main square and announcing free public transportation, which sounded too goofy even by the eccentric standards of the social media-loving mayor.

The former head of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), nominated by the two major opposition parties represented at the Turkish Parliament as their joint presidential candidate on June 16, has addressed secular voters in his first interview.

Hillary Clinton's new memoir, “Hard Choices,” which many observers interpret as an unofficial kickoff of her prospective 2016 presidential campaign, dishes out a lot about key world leaders, but Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has a special place in the 656-page book published June 10.