Under Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) rule, Turkey’s standing in the world has ...

It was the Muslim Brotherhood darling Erdogan, among the world’s most influential Islamist public officials, who famously proclaimed that pressuring Muslims living in the West to assimilate is ...

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In Tunisia, Brotherhood leader Rachid Ghannouchi has tried to rebrand his Islamist party, Ennahda, as “Muslim democrats” — a move ominously reminiscent of Erdogan’s repackaging of the AKP ...

the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Hamas in Gaza and a number of factions in Syria and Iraq. When you look more closely at Erdogan’s foreign policy, you can see the contours of the Ottoman Empire ...

Fethullah Gulen was an Islamic cleric who had built a powerful global movement — but eventually found himself exiled in the U ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

Highlighting the countries’ “eternal brotherhood,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Kyrgyz counterpart Sadyr Japarov on Tuesday signed 19 agreements on security, health ...

Relations between the two nations have been frosty since 2013, when Erdogan condemned Sisi' ousting of Mohammed Morsi, ...

Doting followers likened him to a Muslim Dalai Lama. Critics accused Erdogan of using the failed overthrow as a pretext to consolidate power and further cement his rule. He became the country’s ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C) holds a meeting with political and religious leaders from the predominantly Muslim Sandzak on October 11, 2024 in Belgrade, Serbia. Turkish Foreign ...