Recep Tayyip Erdoğan presidential campaign

Turkey is set accept delivery of the Russian-made S-400 missile defense system in July, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced on June 25.

A Turkish court on Aprtil 11 acquitted HSBC Turkey chief executive Selim Kervancı of a charge of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan by retweeting a video on social media at the time of Gezi Park protests in 2013.

A presidential spokesman on April 2 severely rejected political comments that the results from the local elections in Turkey meant "the beginning of the end" for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.     

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has slammed President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan after he once again said he would convert the Hagia Sophia into a mosque, saying the president used the matter, a sensitive issue for conservative voters, as a strategy to garner more votes only a few days before the local elections this weekend.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on March 23 released a congratulatory message commemorating Pakistan's national day.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has slammed President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's election campaign rhetoric for the upcoming March 31 elections, saying discriminating citizens according to their ideological affiliations is not right.

Turkey has been exposed to multi-pronged attacks as no other period, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Feb. 28 criticizing those who fleers the security concerns expressed by the government.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has accused the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) and its ally in the March 31 local elections, İYİ (Good) Party, of "surrendering" to the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) and the illegal PKK.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has reiterated that the main opposition party Republican People's Party's (CHP) stake in the listed private lender İşbank will be transferred to the country's Treasury.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has lashed out at main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu over his accusations that the former's presidency was "illegitimate."