Tayyip Erdogan

In a speech over the weekend, President Tayyip Erdoğan complained that the ongoing Qatar crisis came out of the blue, at a time when Turkey was trying to deal with other serious regional issues like Syria and Iraq.

President Tayyip Erdoğan likes to hit out at Europe over its "mistaken" attitude toward Turkey. Since last July's traumatic coup attempt, we have often heard him accusing Europeans of "letting Turkey down," "not showing enough empathy to the country's problems," or "supporting the traitors of his country."

Amid the new crisis in the Middle East, in which Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan has put his weight on Qatar's side, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said on June 13 that Turkey and the European Union could cooperate successfully by leaving behind certain recent problems.

Amid the Qatar crisis which is straining the entire neighborhood, Turkish politics has become occupied with a son-in-law crisis where the courts are accused of positive discrimination in the case of the relatives of key political figures of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Parti).

Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan told Bahrain's Foreign Minister that the dispute between Qatar and other Arab states should be resolved by the end of the holy month of Ramadan, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on June 10.

Following U.S. President Donald Trump's tweet on June 6, in which he took credit for the Saudi-Egyptian move on Qatar for himself, it can be said that the options before Emir of Qatar Thamim al-Thani are more limited than the day before.

President Erdoğan has called for Turkish businesspeople to give a boost to domestic investment and job-creation, adding that the state of emergency constituted no obstacle before businesses

In a last-minute effort on May 31, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu urged the U.S.

Turkey's president and the chair of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has vowed to impose a substantial change to the party's organization and all provincial branches because they are suffering from "metal fatigue." 

In his first move for the new administrative structure in Turkey following the April 16 referendum to consolidate all executive power in presidential hands and allowing the president to lead a political party, President Tayyip Erdoğan made his move and changed some top positions in the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) on May 29.