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Thursday, December 4, 2025
TopicRecep Tayyip Erdogan

Topic: Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Turkey’s Erdogan gets ready for rocky 4 years of Joe Biden

Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his advisers know Joe Biden well, but that isn’t necessarily a plus with US sanctions against Turkey ready to deploy & held back to date only by Trump.

Populist leaders such as Modi, Netanyahu, Erdogan may regret their embrace of Trump

Indian leaders are reduced to hoping Biden won’t make same mistakes they did, will look beyond who’s in power at the moment and focus on long-term ties.

Erdogan’s assault on Macron is the height of cynicism

There was a time when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan didn’t see the West as Turkey’s enemy and even wanted to join the European Union.

Macron, Erdogan, Imran Khan must respond as leaders, not politicians

Macron, Erdogan & Khan currently face grave political, economic crises at home. Their concern for French Muslims is hard to square with silence over persecution of Muslims in China.

Imran Khan calls for unity against ‘Islamophobia’ in the West in letter to Muslim leaders

In the letter, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan highlighted 'cycles of violence' and said that Muslim leaders need to reach out to Western countries and educate them on Islam.

How France-Turkey’s probable but unlikely conflict has been shaped by Erdogan’s politics

In episode 604 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta explains the recent France-Turkey conflict and the deeper implications of this row.

Photos of Turkey’s First Lady with Hermes bag surfaces amid calls for French goods boycott

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had called for the boycott amid a widening rift with France following President Macron stating that Islam was a religion in crisis all over the world.

Muslim world faces divide after Erdogan takes on France for its crackdown on radical Islam

Erdogan has been feuding with French President Macron over his characterization of Islam as a religion 'in crisis' & crackdown on Islamists since the beheading of a French teacher.

Why Trump is headed for defeat while fellow populists Modi & Erdogan thrive

It's too late for Trump to learn from Erdogan & Modi, his fellow elected demagogues who continue to win elections despite presiding over multiple political and economic disasters.

How Turkey’s Erdogan is getting away with his foreign policy adventurism

For Erdogan, the absence of a red flag is a green flag. If you’re looking for a unifying theory, it is this: Turkey’s president does what he does because he gets away with it.

On Camera

My grandmother saved her children in Bhopal gas tragedy—and sacrificed her own life

‘Mother kept pouring water in our eyes whenever the burning became unbearable. She pushed our bodies deep into the blanket, making sure not a single part was exposed,’ my father said.

India’s Russian oil imports are showing up in cryptic new places. The crude map stands redrawn

December oil imports from Russia may drop nearly 50%, but Indian buyers already shifting to non-designated Russian entities and opaque trading channels to keep Russian oil flowing.

India to commission new squadron of submarine-hunting Romeo choppers in Goa later this month

The helicopters produced by Lockheed Martin are known as ‘submarine hunters’. India ordered 24 of these aircraft in 2020 to replace the Sea King helicopters. 15 have been delivered till date.

Gaali cricket: Bavuma stands tall, India’s Test ego cut to size

The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.