Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his family members are directly involved in illegal oil deliveries from Daesh oil fields (widely known as Islamic State) in Syria, according to Russia’s Defense Ministry.

Three journalists from daily BirGün face up to four years in prison on charges of "insulting the Turkish president" while a columnist from daily Taraf has testified on the same charge.

U.S. President Barack Obama said he had spoken to his Turkish counterpart in Paris on the sidelines of a climate change conference about the need to close the border between Turkey and Syria, while Secretary of State John Kerry has said Erdo?an is "completely committed and ready to proceed" to help guarantee that the remaining portion of the border is closed.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s advisor Burhan Kuzu commented on his Twitter account about the refugee agreement achieved between the EU and Turkey pn November 29.

He stated that the EU yielded under Turkey’s threat to open its borders to refugees and decided to provide Turkey with financial support for the migrant crisis.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has said Russian President Vladimir Putin used to call him "brave and bold," before the two countries' relations soured over Turkey's downing of a Russian fighter jet near the Syrian border on Nov. 24.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?oglu will meet Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of an OSCE conference in Belgrade on Dec. 3-4 for the first face-to-face meeting between high-level Turkish and Russian officials since the downing of a Russian jet on Nov. 24.

Last Thursday, Can Dündar and Erdem Gül, the editor-in-chief and the Ankara representative of Turkish daily newspaper Cumhuriyet, were arrested and put in jail. They might stay in prison for months, perhaps years. The prosecutor who demanded their arrest has also demanded prison sentences of 42 years!

Turkey rarely runs out of bitter political irony. At exactly the same moment as Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu was reading out his government's program in parliament live on television, a news channel ran the typical "breaking news" ticker: "Prosecutors demand up to 20 years in jail for [Cumhuriyet] journalists [Can] Dündar and [Erdem] Gül." As the ticker kept running on the screen, Mr.

Turkey's top judicial body has launched an inquiry into 17 judges and prosecutors on charges of "acting in line with the aims of the parallel state structure," referring to supporters of Fethullah Gülen, a U.S.-based preacher who was once a close ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday said he was ready to step down if allegations that Ankara traded oil with the Islamic State (IS) group were proven, local media outlets say.

"The nobility of our nation would require that I would not stay in office," Hürriyet Daily News quotes him as saying.