Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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• Turkish gov't open to referendum to end protests

  ISTANBUL -- Turkey's government yesterday offered a first concrete gesture aimed at ending nearly two weeks of street protests, proposing a referendum on a development project in Istanbul that triggered demonstrations that have become the biggest challen   Read more »

• Erdogan aviva llamas de la protesta, dice opositor

  (AP) -- El lider de un partido de oposicion de Turquia acuso al primer ministro de escalar las tensiones y arrastrar al pais "al fuego", mientras las protestas contra el gobierno, que comenzaron hace 11 dias, han dejado un saldo de tres muertos.El primer   Read more »

• Turkish opposition calls for end to tension

  (AP) -- Turkey's opposition party leader called on the prime minister to stop escalating tensions and dragging the country "into the fire" as anti-government protests that have led to three deaths entered their 11th day on Monday.Prime Minister Recep Tay   Read more »

• Egypt's Islamists, opposition closely eye Turkey

  (AP) -- Liberal-minded Egyptians and supporters of the ruling Muslim Brotherhood now share one thing: the rival sides are closely following protests in Turkey, a country that has provided the heavily polarized and increasingly impoverished Egyptians with   Read more »

• Turkey PM's party rules out early elections

  (AP) -- Tens of thousands of people thronged Istanbul's Taksim Square Saturday, and thousands more turned out in central Ankara as protests that have presented Turkey's prime minister with the first serious challenge to his leadership entered their secon   Read more »

Around the web

• Turkey could deploy army to quell protests

  F. Kennedy Street, near the U.S. embassy in Turkish capital, Ankara, Monday, June 10, 2013. ITurkey's prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet with a group of protesters occupying Istanbul's central Taksim Square this week, the deputy prime minister Bulent 6/17/13 from Straits Times Read more »

• Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc threatens to dispatch army to quell protests

  came after another night of violent clashes between police and protesters calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc told Turkish state-run television that the government would use “all its powers” 6/17/13 from The Independent Read more »

• Shai Franklin: Is Russia Pivoting to Turkey?

  with some intent. First, there's Turkey. The latest protests and crackdown in Istanbul have punctuated Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's long slide away from the West, which began with the European Union rejecting Turkey's bid to launch accession talks, 6/17/13 from The Huffington Post Read more »

• Turkey unions strike after PM defends crackdown

  strike yesterday to protest at police violence against anti-government demonstrators, a day after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan defended his crackdown on an Istanbul protest park. Turkish Interior Minister Muammer Guler condemned the stoppage as ‘illegal’ 6/17/13 from My Sarawak Read more »

• Unions give lift to Turkish anti-gov't protests

  (AP) — Labor groups fanned a wave of defiance against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan 's authority on Monday, leading rallies and a one-day strike to support activists whose two-week standoff with the government has shaken Turkey 's secular democracy. 6/17/13 from Yahoo News: Business Read more »