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People walk next to a poster of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. Turkey is marking the 100th anniversary of the creation of the modern, secular Turkish Republic from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire on Sunday but without any grand pageantry or gala reception to memorialize the important milestone. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Erdogan opts for a low-key celebration of Turkey’s 100th anniversary as a secular republic

By Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

Women walk past a Syrian restaurant in an outdoor market in Fatih district of Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, May 23, 2023. Two opposing visions for Turkey’s future are on the ballot when voters return to the polls Sunday for a runoff presidential election, which will decide between an increasingly authoritarian incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu, who has pledged to restore democracy. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Turkish voters weigh final decision on next president, visions for future

By Suzan Fraser and Ayse Wieting - Associated Press

A man walks past a billboard of Turkish CHP party leader and Nation Alliance's presidential candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu a day after the presidential election day, in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, May 15, 2023. Turkey's presidential elections appeared to be heading toward a second-round runoff on Monday, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has ruled his country with a firm grip for 20 years, leading over his chief challenger, but falling short of the votes needed for an outright win. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Turkish candidate Kilicdaroglu hardens stance before runoff against Erdogan

By Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

People warm themselves next to a collapsed building in Malatya, Turkey, on Feb. 7, 2023. A magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook southern Turkey on Monday, Feb. 27, 2023, three weeks after a catastrophic temblor devastated the region, causing some already damaged buildings to collapse and killing at least one person, the country's disaster management agency, AFAD, said. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel, File)

Turkey intends to hold elections on May 14 despite quake

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People walk in central Istanbul, Monday, April 26, 2021. Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced the country's strictest pandemic restrictions so far, closing businesses and schools and limiting travel for nearly three weeks starting Thursday to fight a surge in COVID-19 infections and deaths. Turkey had so far instituted partial lockdowns to curb infections and to keep the economy running as it faces a significant economic downturn.The measures will be in place until May 17. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Full COVID-19 lockdown adds to financial strain in Turkey

By MEHMET GUZEL and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY - Associated Press

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses his ruling party legislators, in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, Feb. 10.2021. Erdogan on Wednesday ruled out discussing a federal system to reunify Cyprus, insisting that a two-state accord is the only solution for the ethnically-split island. (Turkish Presidency via AP, Pool)

Turkey says 2-state solution only option for divided Cyprus

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A woman reacts as riot police officers detain a student during a protest, in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. Students and faculty members at Bogazici University have been staging demonstrations in protest of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Jan. 1 appointment of an academic with links to his ruling party, as rector.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Turkish president takes action at protest-rocked university

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY - Associated Press

In this Friday, March 24, 2017, file photo, people walk backdropped by the Byzantine-era Hagia Sophia, one of Istanbul's main tourist attractions, in the historic Sultanahmet district of Istanbul. The 6th-century building is now at the center of a heated debate between conservative groups who want it to be reconverted into a mosque and those who believe the World Heritage site should remain a museum. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

Museum or mosque? Turkey debates iconic Hagia Sofia’s status

By Suzan Fraser and Ayse Wieting - Associated Press

A migrant woman sits as a baby sleeps at an abandoned building in Edirne, near the Turkish-Greek border on Friday, March 6, 2020. Clashes between Greek riot police and migrants attempting to cross the border from Turkey erupted anew Friday as European Union foreign ministers held an emergency meeting to discuss the situation on the Turkey-Greece border and in Syria, where Turkish troops are fighting. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Tear gas sprayed across migrants at Turkey-Greece border

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 28, 2020 file photo, a Turkish military convoy moves in the east of Idlib, Syria. Syria’s official news agency said Sunday, March 1, 2020, that two of its warplane were shot down by Turkish forces inside northwest Syria, amid a military escalation there that's led to growing direct clashes between Turkish and Syrian forces. SANA said the jets were targeted over the Idlib region, and that the four pilots ejected with parachutes and landed safely. (AP Photo, File)

Turkey’s Erdogan hopes to broker Syria truce in Moscow

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 5, 2016 file photo, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu speaks to the media, in Ankara, Turkey. Davutoglu, a former Turkish prime minister, who had served as foreign minister between 2009 and 2014 and later as prime minister until 2016, has established a new political party on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019, in a move that could dent support for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, File)

Ex-Turkish PM pledges return to parliamentary democracy

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Ex-Turkish prime minister forms party challenging Erdogan

By SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

U.S. President Donald Trump meets NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg at Winfield House in London, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019. US President Donald Trump will join other NATO heads of state at Buckingham Palace in London on Tuesday to mark the NATO Alliance's 70th birthday. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The Latest: Macron wants bigger Europe military role in NATO

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Turkish Invasion of Syria Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Erdogan’s costly victories

By Jed Babbin

A woman tries to see Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during the inauguration of a theme park in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, March 20, 2019. Erdogan has sparked a diplomatic spat with New Zealand and Australia as he campaigns for votes in local elections this month and portrays the mosque shooting in New Zealand and a World War I battle as targeting Islam.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Erdogan airs mosque gunman video ahead visit by NZ minister

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Turkey must break contact with Europe

By Ahmet S. Yayla

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu speaks to the media at the headquarters of his ruling Justice and Development Party, AKP, in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, May 5, 2016. Davutoglu announced his resignation on Thursday, paving the way for the country's president to pursue a tighter grip on power. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey prime minister, announces decision to step down

By Suzan Fraser and Dominique Soguel - Associated Press

Smoke rises after strikes in Kobani, Syria as fighting intensifies between Syrian Kurds and the militants of Islamic State group, as seen from Mursitpinar on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. Kobani has been under the onslaught of the Islamic State group since mid-September when the militants’ launched their offensive in the area, capturing several Kurdish villages around the town and bringing Syria's civil war yet again to Turkey's doorstep. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

CHARLES: Mr. Obama, Mr. Erdogan: save Kobani

By Robert Charles

claim: Militants with the Islamic State plant a hilltop flag near the town of Kobani along the Syrian-Turkish border. (associated press)

Islamic State siege of Syrian border city tests Turkey’s allegiances

By Jacob Resneck — Special to The Washington Times