Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Turkish embraceMore controversially Hery has courted the Turkish strongman President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who visited Antananarivo in January and proffered a reported $60 mn...

Several sources agreed with a senior secularist minister in the government which is still in office pending the new coalition's formation that the PJD was stealthily following a model of state penetration deployed by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (AKP; Justice and Development Party) another Islamist party linked to the Muslim Brotherhood...

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's backing which we hear has been cemented by lucrative business between their respective cronies...

One African writer contrasted the vocabulary used by Western diplomats about the growing authoritarianism of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (whose cooperation over migration is much needed by the EU) with the stock critiques of repression in Uganda and Zimbabwe...

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...