Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan News

Preliminary official results announced by Turkey’s Supreme Election Council (YSK) on Sunday showed Erdogan winning with 52.14 percent of the votes.

These elections may turn out to be the most symbolic, dramatic and important in Turkey`s modern history, as they will mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Turkey, will decide the course the country will take in the coming decades.

The 'Yes' campaign won 63.2 per cent of the vote while the 'No' campaign mustered 36.8 per cent, the election commission said in figures quoted by the NTV channel, in an initial count based on 25 per cent of the ballot boxes.

"When we call them Nazis they (Europe) get uncomfortable. They rally together in solidarity. Especially Merkel," Erdogan said in a televised speech.

Turkey's military in the wake of a July 15 failed coup, bringing the armed forces further under civilian authority.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was Wednesday to chair a crunch security meeting in Ankara for the first time since the failed coup, with tens of thousands either detained or sacked from their jobs in a widening purge.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was to chair meetings of his national security council and cabinet in Ankara Wednesday after returning to the capital for the first time since the failed coup aimed at ousting him from power, officials said.

"The United States -- you must extradite that person," Erdogan told his supporters in Istanbul.

Nizami, leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was hanged at a Dhaka jail late Tuesday for the massacre of intellectuals during the 1971 independence war. 

The Russian defense ministry on Wednesday accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his family of profiting from illegal shipments of oil by IS the terrorist group in Syria.