Recep Tayyip Erdogan

That was apparent in Rabat's weaponisation of migration in Ceuta touching a sensitive nerve on the EU's southern flank just as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has done in exploiting the migrant crisis to Turkey's advantage...

The Trump administration realised that trying to force Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan into line by making economic threats or imposing sanctions risked pushing him into Vladimir Putin's arms...

Withdrawal bidA potentially even more important development could be in the offing since President  Recep Tayyip Erdogan who saw Dubaiba's appointment as a victory is reported to have told a meeting in Ankara on 9 February that Turkey would withdraw its forces from Libya if other foreign troops withdrew first i...

A discordant note came from Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan claiming it lacked credibility as the JMC does not have the legal power to implement or police a ceasefire...

There are suggestions too that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is now also soft-peddling on Sirte though more Turkish military equipment continues to arrive in Watiya and Misrata which Turkey also wants as an airbase...

The political backing of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey for the UN-recognised regime in Tripoli is well-known but less so are the subsidiary clauses in the pact which massively extend Ankara's footprint in the eastern Mediterranean...

In response Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a firm supporter of the GNA dispatched several hundred mercenaries who had been fighting in Syria to defend Tripoli along with more arms and equipment...

Tense relations between the party's great inspiration Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Morocco were reflected in Elalamy's recent criticism of Istanbul for building a huge bilateral trade surplus by maintaining an unfair exchange rate and other alleged abuses...

In Istanbul on 27 November President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Serraj accompanied by both Bashagha and Siala agreed a deal which opens the door to fresh deliveries of military hardware expertise and possibly even boots on the ground – precisely what the Berlin summit is supposed to stop...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is totally committed to backing the GNA and preventing Haftar from winning: the pressure needed to change that would be more than Trump would be willing to exert they explain noting his failure to stop Erdogan buying Russia's  S-400 missile defence system...