| Turkey’s jailing of 17 journalists since September is fuelling accusations that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s changes to the legal system are designed to eliminate opponents rather than harmonize laws with the European Union. ... |
| Turkey’s jailing of 17 journalists since September is fuelling accusations that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s changes to the legal system are designed to eliminate opponents rather than harmonize laws with the European Union. ... |
![]() | Turkey plans to build a vast waterway to relieve congestion in Istanbul's Bosphorus Strait, Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has announced. ... |
| ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey's prime minister on Wednesday announced what he called a "crazy and magnificent" plan to build a new waterway to the Black Sea, promising that the tanker-clogged Bosporus through Istanbul would soon be used for sports and boat ... |
| Less than two months before voters are expected to go to the polls in national elections, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Wednesday announced ambitious plans to dig a new canal through Istanbul that would bypass the existing Bosphorus Str ... |
![]() | Turkish president Recep Erdogan trumpets 'crazy and magnificent plan' for channel to reduce traffic and oil spills The ferries, fishing boats and pleasure cruisers which crisscross the Bosphorus may one day have more room for manoeuvre on the watery ... |
| Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey will build a canal from the Black Sea to the Marmara Sea, turning the city of Istanbul into “two peninsulas and an island” and diverting shipping traffic from the Bosporus. ... |
| Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday announced what he called a “crazy and magnificent” plan to build a new waterway to the Black Sea. ... |
| Turkey's prime minister on Wednesday announced what he called a "crazy and magnificent" plan to build a new waterway to the Black Sea, promising that the tanker-clogged Bosporus through Istanbul would soon be used for sports and boat trips. ... |
| Turkey will build a new waterway to bypass the heavily congested Bosphorus Strait, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announces. ... |
| Turkey's prime minister says the country will build a new waterway to bypass the heavily congested Bosporus. ... |
| Turkey's 100-foot "Peace and Brotherhood" monument might have been intended as a symbol of friendship with neighboring Armenia when it was erected in Kars in 2006. But one person who didn't see it that way was Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who ... |
| Turkey starts demolishing a statue dedicated to reconciliation with Armenia, described by the prime minister as a monstrosity. ... |
| Workers have begun dismantling a giant sculpture meant to promote reconciliation between Turkey and Armenia. ... |