Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Source : Anadolu Agency | Tripoli / 16 Sept 2011

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that those who inflicted repression on the people of Syria would not survive.

Prime Minister Erdogan addressed a cheering Libyan crowd in the Martyrs' Square in Tripoli, the third stop of his historic tour of north African countries.

"It is a great enthusiasm and a great pleasure to me to see that Libyan people's struggle for freedom and democracy has concluded with victory," he said.

Source : News Agencies | Tripoli / 16 Sept 2011

Turkey's prime minister Tayyip Erdogan, on a North African tour to assert Ankara's regional influence, arrived in Tripoli on Friday, in the midst of a fierce battle over Gaddafi's home town.

A Turkish ship did play a key role in evacuating civilians from the coastal town of Misrata while it was besieged by Gaddafi forces, and Ankara has recently been vocal in supporting the NTC and provided it with $300 million in cash, loans and other aid.

Source: Al Jazeera and News Agencies | Cairo / 14 Sept 2011

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister, has told Arab foreign ministers that Israel has isolated itself and must "pay the price" after refusing to apologise for its raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla last year.

In his opening address to a meeting of Arab League in Cairo on Tuesday, Erdogan also condemned Israeli policies and said that the recognition of a Palestinian state was "not an option but an obligation".

Source : Al Jazeera | Ankara / Thursday, 08 September 2011

The Turkish prime minister has accused Israel of lacking "trade ethics" in bilateral military contracts.

"Israel has shown disloyalty in our bilateral agreements in the defence industry area," Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, referring to a military agreement on Turkey's purchase of Israeli drones.

"For example, unmanned aerial vehicles were purchased and they were sent back for further maintenance. [The Israelis] are still delaying the delivery.

"Is this moral?" Erdogan said.

Source : Reuters
MOGADISHU | 18 Aug 2011

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan visited Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Friday to draw international attention to the famine sweeping across the Horn of Africa nation, threatening to kill hundreds of thousands of children

Erdogan, accompanied by his family and five cabinet ministers, has in the past days appealed for more food aid for the drought-hit nation and lashed out at wealthy Western nations for not doing more.

Source : World Bulletin
Ankara | 19 Jul 2011

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the most popular figure across the Arab world due to his staunch support for Gazans, has said he is planning to visit Gaza after his trip to Egypt later this month.

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday ahead of his visit to Turkish Cyprus, Erdogan said he wants to visit Gaza, but that plans are not definite yet.

Source : Ece Toksabay & Ibon Villelebeitia | Reuters
ISTANBUL | 09 Jun 2011

When Tayyip Erdogan sold bread rolls as a boy on the old streets of Istanbul, Turkey was a country caught in a cycle of army coups. It languished on the fringes of Europe. Pious Turks were the underdogs of society.

As Erdogan moves toward his second decade as prime minister, Turkey could not look more different.

It has one of the world’s fastest-growing economies, it is a European Union candidate and a regional heavyweight, and religious Turks have displaced the secularist elite from power.

Source : Selcan Hacaoglu | AP
ANKARA : Turkey | 03 May 2011

Turkey escalated the pressure on Muammar Qaddafi on Tuesday despite its long-standing ties to the Libyan leader, insisting Qaddafi must immediately leave “for the sake of his country’s future.” Qaddafi has ignored calls for change in Libya and instead preferred “blood, tears and pressure against his own people,” Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a news conference in Istanbul.

Source : REUTERS
ISTANBUL | 28 Apr 2011

Turkey plans to build a vast waterway to relieve congestion in Istanbul’s Bosphorus Strait, Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, a week into the campaign for June’s parliamentary election.

Speaking at a glitzy event to mark the government’s vision for 2023, the centenary of the republic, Erdogan unveiled plans to redraw the map in his home town in what he called a “crazy project” which also involves building a third airport there.

Source | Middle East Online
Ankara | 25 Feb 2011

Turkey has shown that Islam and democracy can co-exist and could serve as an inspiration in the wake of the popular uprisings sweeping Arab countries, according to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

In an exclusive interview with AFP, the Turkish premier also predicted that Moamer Gathafi's beleaguered regime in Tripoli would soon face up to "reality" while making clear his opposition to sanctions on Libya.