Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Veteran incumbent is clear favourite over opposition challenger in second round on May 28th

Turkey’s president in strong position despite being forced into an election run-off

Opposition promising to restore democracy and halt authoritarian slide under Recep Tayyip Erdogan

More than 64 million people, including 3.4 million overseas voters, eligible to vote in elections

Polls give main challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu a slight lead

High stakes as charismatic strongman faces first credible challenge in recent memory

Runaway inflation has helped push voters towards the opposition in Mersin and elsewhere as poll approaches

Turkey’s president announces ‘neutralisation’ of Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi in Syria

In Little Aleppo in Ankara, poverty, police harassment and other intimidations are now routine for the Syrians Turkey is increasingly determined to send home

Turkey’s longest-serving leader cut short a live TV interview saying he had an upset stomach

Patrick Smyth: EU capitals will be watching the Turkish elections in May, the toughest the autocratic ruler has yet faced

Recep Tayyip Erdogan came to power by leveraging anger about the 1999 earthquake - but the president risks losing this year’s election because of inadequate preparations, and reactions to, the latest disaster

Former strongholds looking for alternatives to Erdogan not necessarily translating into support for opposition

Although Sweden is more or less surrounded by Nato members, the risk of a military attack from Russia – even though it is preoccupied in Ukraine – cannot be ruled out entirely

Decision not to run a candidate boosts prospects of opposition ahead of May poll

Move paves way for military alliance to expand its direct border with Russia

Combined death toll across country and neighbouring Syria passes 54,000, millions left homeless

More than a million buildings may have to be restored in what could be the country’s biggest reconstruction effort in 100 years

Two women and three children rescued as combined death toll in two countries climbs to more than 41,000

More than 33,000 people killed as chances of finding more survivors growing more remote

Situation in northwest Syria, ravaged by more than decade of civil war, increasingly desperate, says UN

Erdogan could use state of emergency to strengthen grip of his unpopular regime, while Russia will work with Assad to prolong the suffering of Syria’s victims

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad makes first visit to the quake-ravaged region

Hopes of finding survivors fade amid freezing temperatures more than three days since the quake hit

President visits devastated region after criticism of initial government reaction to natural disaster

President Erdogan visits region of southern Turkey devastated by this week’s earthquake

Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan acknowledges ‘shortcomings’ in rescue efforts on visit to hard-hit Hatay province

In Kahramanmaras and Pazarcik, rescuers comb the rubble, often finding only body parts

Relatives of Syrian refugee in Co Roscommon among those killed as efforts to find survivors are frustrated by freezing conditions, aftershocks and damaged roads

Families grapple with grief, anger and despondency as they wait for news of loved ones caught up in the massive Turkish and Syrian earthquake

The scale of devastation following Monday's earthquake is enormous - international aid on a massive scale needs to flow and cannot be hindered by politics - either local of international

WHO expects death toll to ‘increase significantly’ as search and rescue efforts continue

Relations between Ankara and Stockholm have worsened markedly in recent weeks

President is trying to soften the blow of inflation on the population and using legal threats to bolster his position ahead of a vote that could reshape his country

Dubliner Síofra O’Leary has asked member states to increase funding

About 100 people took part in protest in front of Turkish embassy on Saturday

Legal case against Erdogan’s rival could prevent him from running in June’s presidential election

Ekrem İmamoğlu found guilty of defaming public servants in 2019 after his narrow win as mayor was overturned

Sale coincided with news that Turkey, which has 35,000 troops in the north, is building a naval base

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