Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Grassroots activists complain that they have been forgotten by leaders who appear to live in a bubble of glamour epitomised by the star-studded Children of Africa gala dinner the state visit by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan or the glitzy shindig of the Africa Chief Executive Officer Forum held in March in Abidjan (AC Vol 57 No 6 Terror on the beach)...

On 29 February Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan landed in Accra on a tour of West Africa and lauded the growing economic cooperation between the two countries...

Hafedh Essebsi has also cultivated ties with other players in the Muslim Brotherhood tradition including Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (AC Vol 52 No 21 New rules for a new order)...

Under Arab and Western pressure President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Islamist-led government in Ankara has started sending some aspiring migrants to IS back home but the British-Sudanese group bypassed such barriers...

In the past year Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has devoted renewed attention to foreign policy as he pursues greater regional influence...

King Mohammed VI has permitted a government led by the 'moderate Islamist' Parti de la justice et du développement (PJD AC Vol 52 No 13) which like the Hizb Ennahda (Renaissance Party) of Tunisia also now in government claims to admire Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (AKP Justice and Development Party) in Turkey...

Ghannouchi himself has worked hard to cultivate an image as a Tunisian version of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and has called on his friend Saad Djebbar an Algerian lawyer based in Britain and British libel specialists Peter Carter-Ruck to defend his claimed commitment to non-violence...

Turkey’s Islamists have had a good month with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (Justice and Development Party) being held up by Islamists in Tunisia and Egypt as a model for supporters of political Islam in a multiparty system...

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government is ratcheting up its African diplomatic offensive touting the ‘moderate Islamism’ of the ruling Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (Justice and Development Party AKP) and seeking to boost trade ties across the continent...

On 23 May Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan President Abdullah Gül and Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu held talks in Ankara with the Chairman of the Libyan Interim Transitional National Council Mustafa Abdel Jalil...