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Erdogan said he believed Xinjiang would definitely return to a state of stability, harmony and prosperity.

In this situation, it would be wise for a re-elected Mr Erdogan to reach out to his opponents, above all over the presidency.

Erdogan also defends Iran's right to a nuclear programme, panicking western diplomats who are trying to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran.

With an election approaching, Mr Erdogan may merely be trying to keep the nationalist opposition out of parliament by wooing its voters.

Mr. Erdogan said the two countries have also agreed to carry out their trade in their national currencies.

We did what we could so far on this issue, Erdogan said. Bahceli is trying to blame the government for his internal problems, he added.

But if Mr Erdogan is bold enough to seize the moment, he could yet crown his premiership with a peace settlement in the south-east.

Some pundits speculate that, rather than closing the party, the court will bar Mr Erdogan and a few of his lieutenants from politics.

It was an impressive victory for Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development (AK) party. What will he do with it?

But in 2007 it fell out with Mr Erdogan over stories linking party bigwigs to the diversion of money from a German-based charity.

Stony-faced, Mr Erdogan said he feared most for outlying villages, where houses of mud brick had been pulverised.

To his credit, Mr Erdogan was the first Muslim leader to tell Egypt's Hosni Mubarak to step down.

Mr. Erdogan said Syria's leaders can remain in power with tanks and cannons only up to a certain point.

Turkey was negotiating with Egyptian officials over whether Mr. Erdogan should also cross into Gaza, he said.

But as The Economist went to press, they too seemed to be on the verge of striking a deal, just as the derisive Mr Erdogan had predicted.

Mr Erdogan's authoritarian bent and his quarrels with the secular press did not help.

Mr Erdogan is now expected to call for Greek intervention during an official visit to Athens on May 12th.

But lately, observers say, Prime Minister Erdogan appears to be seeking influence with Arabs at the cost of relations with Israel.

Mr. Erdogan said nothing, but has in the past expressed his outrage over what he calls "shifting the goalposts" .

Even the prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, complained that "they eavesdropped on me for six years" .

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the earthquake has caused deaths.

After some wobbling, Mr Erdogan now seems ready to take the army on.

The PKK has threatened to call off its recently declared unilateral ceasefire unless Mr Erdogan moves on Kurdish rights.

It is not clear, for instance, who might have been listening in on Mr Erdogan.

In the run-up to presidential and parliamentary elections next year, Mr Erdogan would do well to avoid fanning that mood.

Received as a hero after Davos in Turkey, Erdogan dramatically increased the stridency of his rhetoric against Israel.

It was also enough to overcome growing concerns over Mr Erdogan's authoritarian manner.

The onus is now on Mr Erdogan to insist to the generals that they must take orders from him and not the other way round.

Still, in a speech to his deputies, Erdogan on Tuesday denied his government is following a sectarian agenda to support Sunni aims.

Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan was on a foray to Syria and Jordan Wednesday and is also due to visit Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

After nearly eight years of single-party rule by Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development (AK) party, the army has been largely tamed.

Erdogan's visit to Egypt has been a media circus, withthousands greeting the Turkish leader on his arrival at Cairo airport on Mondaynight.

Mr Erdogan is (justly) credited with having brought about more reforms than any of his predecessors.

Following the election again, Erdogan tentatively suggested that Kurdish demands could be met with a new constitution .

Even as Turkey parades its model before the Arab world, Mr Erdogan should not forget that part of its attraction is its embrace of the EU.

Mr Erdogan is not the first Turkish prime minister to run up against the generals.

This was not enough to reconcile the secularist opposition or the army to Mr Erdogan's government.

Sad. Erdogan is smart, charismatic and can be very pragmatic.

The latest coup talk may have galvanised Mr Erdogan into a fresh burst of reformist zeal.

EVEN fans of Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, were surprised by the scale of his success.

In his victory speech the prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, declared that he would work with the opposition to write a new constitution.

Before that he was an international-relations adviser to Mr Erdogan.

Such exaggerations aside, some of the amendments will boost the powers of the presidency, an office Mr Erdogan is widely believed to covet.

"Do not be wary of secularism. I hope there will bea secular state in Egypt, " Erdogan told private television channel Dreamon Monday.

Secular critics of AK remain unswayed, seeing the amendments as a way for Mr Erdogan to cement his "civilian dictatorship" .

Turkey has to deal with the region as it is, one of Mr Erdogan's advisers told me.

At successive rallies Mr Erdogan has accused The Economist of acting in concert with "a global gang" and taking orders from Israel.

The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan acknowledged there had been failures in the distribution of tents.

Injaz said he admired Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin signed energy agreements in Ankara Thursday.

In his victory speech on Sunday night, Erdogan spoke of humility and promised to work with his political rivals.

Mr Erdogan prevailed only after prosecutors decided, at the last minute, to revoke arrest warrants for 102 officers linked to Sledgehammer.

Erdogan doesn't want another diplomatic crisis in the context of Syria, like the one instigated by the nuclear issue with Iran.

When Mr Erdogan asked where the money would come from Mr Kilicdaroglu's response was Delphic: "my name is Kemal. "

The harsh truth is that Turkey has no real alternative to Europe, as Mr Erdogan and his colleagues will discover in 2011.

Thus, when Mr Erdogan faces pressure from pious mentors, it is not to be more radical but rather the opposite.

Erdogan said as the political authority, they shared the same determinism displayed by the security forces.

Under AK's internal rules Mr Erdogan cannot run for a fourth term as prime minister, so he has nowhere to go save upstairs.

Erdogan said Turkey and the Turkish Cypriot government is promoting this, the relevant exploration work will commence within the week.

That Turkish voters are poised to return Mr Erdogan to power in the general election on June 12th is thus not surprising.

With only three weeks to go before countrywide municipal elections on March 29th, Mr Erdogan has hit the campaign trail in a confident mood.

A: We congratulate Prime Minister Erdogan's Justice and Development Party on its victory in the Turkish Parliamentary election once again.

Aiming to win the supermajority that would have eased this task, Mr Erdogan embraced a strident anti-Kurdish tone on the campaign trail.

Both government and opposition leaders cast the referendum as a vote of confidence in the prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Behind-the-scenes lobbying by Turkish, American and European Union diplomats may have persuaded Mr Erdogan to tone down his language.

"From here, we warn the Syrian regime not to make any mistakes, not to test Turkey's decisiveness and wisdom, " Mr. Erdogan said.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan campaigned with extravagant promises of new construction and services.

Mr Erdogan also announced that Turkey would rebuild the road to Mogadishu airport, restore a hospital, build schools and drill water wells.

"Effective onboarding is essential, especially for the overqualified, " says Erdogan.

Erdogan said he was saddened to learn that 15 soldiers were killed and 20 others were wounded in an assault by the PKK terrorists.

Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan was traveling to Van and the cabinet was expected to discuss the quake at a meeting called for Monday morning.

Other leaders attending Sunday's anniversary include Croatian President Ivo Josipovic and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Additionally, Prime Minister Erdogan has agreed to host the next Entrepreneurship Summit in Turkey in 2011.

Mr Erdogan himself was briefly jailed in 1999 for the offence of reading an Islamist part of a poem in public.

But Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has publicly urged Mr Assad to use "maximum self-restraint" in dealing with the protests.

Mr Erdogan and the AK may now be well placed to call their bluff.

But this week Mr Erdogan told an AK gathering that he regarded those who wish to sow racial discord as "damned" .

As for America, its dependence on Turkey for its wars in Afghanistan and Iraq means that it cannot afford to alienate Mr Erdogan.

However, Erdogan is no clear "protection" of the content.

The government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister, has decided to look eastwards.

TO TURKEY'S prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, foreign relations must feel a little bizarre this week.

Tonight, I am pleased to announce that Prime Minister Erdogan has agreed to host the next Entrepreneurship Summit next year in Turkey.

Much like Mr Erdogan, he was the voice of religious, largely rural Turks.

Mr Erdogan will now have to win opposition support for his new constitution.

Erdogan had been urging Assad to make domestic changes since before the uprising began in March.

Mr Erdogan sees an Israeli-Palestinian settlement as the sine qua non of strategic stability in Turkey's back yard.

This implies that Erdogan perfunctory manner that the Libyan government to delay the solution to the problem.

The AK incumbent lost in Antalya, even though Mr Erdogan is said to have visited the resort 26 times.

"SARAJEVO won today as much as Istanbul, " declared Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister, after his election victory in June.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared the visit an important step in the growing relationship between China and Turkey.

"SARAJEVO won today as much as Istanbul, " declared Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister, after his election victory in June.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared the visit an important step in the growing relationship between China and Turkey.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Sunday's earthquake has killed at least 93 people in the city of Van and 45 people in the nearby town of Ercis.

Opposition parties have accused Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister, of "carrying out America's orders" and "selling the country" .

To China's fury, Mr Erdogan, when mayor of Istanbul, named part of a central park after Alptekin in the 1990s.

Mr Erdogan, likening Israel to a "spoiled child" , has meanwhile gone on the warpath.

Since 2002, Mr Erdogan has given Kurds more freedom and autonomy than they had before, for which he deserves credit.

Not content with standing on Turkey's own national honour, Mr Erdogan is also intent on making Turkey a champion of the Palestinians.

In Turkey, by contrast, Mr Erdogan has offered a visa to Rebiya Kadeer, a Uighur exile accused by China of fomenting Xinjiang's violence.

"We are at the end of our tether, " roared Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister.

Erdogan said ambulance helicopters, prefabricated homes and mobile kitchens were also being sent.

If he is to make progress on either front, Mr Erdogan needs to be more conciliatory than in the past.

Yet predictions that an irate Mr Erdogan would scrap the EU portfolio in his government were wrong.

Despite his autocratic reputation Mr Erdogan has also made conciliatory gestures at home.

DEFEAT is an unfamiliar concept for Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

'We are forming an economic strategic partnership, ' Mr. Erdogan said. 'In all of our relations, we have agreed to use the lira and yuan. '

Erdogan told the press, said: "We have taken some measures against Israel, we are determined to implement these measures. "

Mr Erdogan himself likens AK to a European Christian Democratic party.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, 22, said history has proven that military intervention in Libya, may have the opposite effect.

Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, promises to send military escorts to accompany aid flotillas to Gaza.

Mr Erdogan also says that talks with the IMF for a new standby deal will resume soon.

Concern about such ethnic hatred prompted Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to angrily condemn it.

Once lauded for sweeping reforms, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister, is growing ever harsher.

As it happens, the opposition (and the generals) are keener to invade than Mr Erdogan.

Erdogan said in his message both countries have long history and splendid culture.

But since then the pious Mr Erdogan and his party have been pragmatic.

The main opposition parties have already blasted Mr Erdogan for alleged treason.

Erdogan faces an election next year and will need to show himself to be more tolerant of dissent to win it.

More than Mr Erdogan's career is at stake. So is Turkey's future.

Before the September referendum Mr Erdogan threatened to destroy TUSIAD, the employers' federation, for not advocating a yes vote.

The AK leadership, especially Mr Erdogan, has proved highly partisan and intolerant of criticism.

Mr Erdogan needs to stick to his guns and push through these changes.

But Mr Erdogan's critics view the changes as a final assault on Ataturk's secular republic.

Mr Erdogan's visit was the first by a leader from outside Africa in almost 20 years.

During the election campaign Mr Erdogan has used much harsher language about the Kurdish party, the BDP.

Second, the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, must find a way of talking directly to the Greek-Cypriots.

Turkey, where Mr Erdogan believed he could influence Mr Assad, says it will today give him an ultimatum.

Earlier this month, Erdogan warned Turkey's restraint in action against the rebel group was coming to the end.

Analysts suggest that half the yes voters were merely backing Mr Erdogan's Justice and Development (AK) party.

Mr Erdogan publicly sparred with Israel, but Mr Gul quietly lobbied Iran to give up its nuclear ambitions.

And since his country's diplomatic spat with Israel earlier this year Mr Erdogan has become a hero to the Arab street.

A former mayor of Istanbul, Mr Erdogan was briefly jailed in 1998 for reciting verses from a nationalist poem that were deemed inflammatory.

Mr Erdogan's Turkey still wants to be part of Europe.

Another problem is Mr Erdogan's autocratic manner, which risks trammelling free debate in the media.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister, received a hero's welcome on a visit to Cairo.

In Ankara, Mr. Erdogan said Turkey had revised its military rules of engagement toward Syria .

All of this will make Mr Erdogan's meeting this weekend with Hillary Clinton, America's secretary of state, especially significant.

Tensions could rise even further with reports Erdogan is planning to visit Gaza in mid September.

Despite this, the election result will have disappointed Mr Erdogan.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan calls the case an attack on democracy.

Mr Erdogan may be strengthened, but he will still need all of the political deftness that has got him this far.

"We have heard from two contacts that Erdogan has eight accounts in Swiss banks, " the cable said.

But Mr Erdogan may call for Greek intervention in Cyprus when he visits Athens on May 12th.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited the Van region and Ercis by helicopter.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been canceled earth day itinerary, will be rushed to the disaster area.

By doing so Erdogan has once again captured the imagination of the region.

Mr Erdogan has only cautiously endorsed a fresh candidacy by Mr Gul, perhaps because he does not want to pick a new fight with the generals.

In his victory speech Mr Erdogan sought to ease their concerns.

It returnedto power in 2002 atop the lip of current PrimeMinister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a gesture of his populist appeal.

That was blocked by Turkey, whose prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for immediate talks.

It will be hard for Mr Erdogan to meet their demands without compromising his popularity.

Mr Erdogan said trade would in future be conducted in lira and renminbi, rather than in dollars.

On the international front Mr Erdogan is raising eyebrows for more than his (understandable) loss of enthusiasm for the EU.

Luckily for Mr Erdogan, America has rarely made much fuss about Turkey's human rights.

Q: Last week, the Turkish Justice and Development Party led by Erdogan won the parliamentary election for the third time in a row.

Now Erdogan must woo Libya's new rulers to protect Turkish economic interests.

"There are distinct advantages to hiring employees who perceive that they are overqualified, " Erdogan and Bauer write.

In 2003 Mr Erdogan visited China with a large delegation to mend relations.

Next week, Mr Erdogan is due in Tehran as Turkey assumes the role of broker between Iran and the west.

Mr Erdogan will have much on his plate in the coming months.

Yet the mildly Islamist prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, says he will not fall into that trap.

The more Kurds there are in Ankara, the more comprehensive will be the new constitution Mr Erdogan promises to deliver after the election.

Mr Erdogan has good reason for his lofty confidence.

Mr Erdogan will brief her on talks with another former Turkish foe, Armenia.

In foreign policy, the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan has certainly fallen prey on occasion to excessive Muslim solidarity.

His aides bemoan Mr Erdogan's ambitions of regional leadership.

On Israel, Mr Erdogan has certainly at times played to the Arab street.

And Mr Erdogan is increasingly fond of blasting his critics in public.

In stark contrast, Mr Erdogan's government has been stable and relatively clean.

Nearly 200 are already on trial over a plot allegedly hatched eight years ago to foment chaos and to bring down Mr Erdogan's administration.

The MHP's poor showing should free Mr Erdogan to respond to Kurdish demands.

Mr Erdogan has been the dominant actor on the Turkish political stage for almost a decade.

Erdogan is not by nature a consensus builder.

Mr Erdogan and Mr Davutoglu demanded a UN-led inquiry and an Israeli apology.

Yet it came as no surprise when Mr Gul and Mr Erdogan broke ranks to form the ruling Justice and Development (AK) party in 2001.

This force also protected Mr Erdogan during his visit.

Once again, Mr Erdogan has done some unhelpful things.

The canny Mr Erdogan has always known when to pull back from the brink.

As Mr Erdogan's people lick their wounds, two lessons stand out.

Indeed, Erdogan today is the most popular leader in the Arab world.

The conundrum for Mr Erdogan is how to please one constituency without antagonising another.

Speaking this week in Switzerland, Mr Erdogan seemed keen to draw a line under the row.

Encouragingly , Mr Erdogan is dropping hints that he will move in this direction.

Mr Erdogan has been urging Mr Assad to meet their demands.

But if Mr Erdogan calculates that he can pander to anti-Israeli prejudice at home without paying a price abroad, he is making a mistake.

Will Mr Erdogan honour his promises?

But Mr Erdogan shows no signs of relenting.

In the spring of 2007 Mr Erdogan announced that his candidate to succeed Mr Sezer was none other than Mr Gul.

That is not where Erdogan is at, though, and it's troubling.

After his triumph, Mr Erdogan was quick to pledge a complete rewrite of the 1980 constitution, which was imposed after a military coup.

Traders in both countries were relieved to learn that Mr Erdogan's decision will not yet affect non-military commerce.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan who is visiting Turkmenistan gave more details of the attack.

Mr Erdogan's excuse is that his party was nearly banned in 2008 because of its efforts to lift the headscarf ban.

As his opponents have been sulking, Mr Erdogan has been playing the statesman.

Mr. Erdogan won last year's general election with a landslide victory.

Mr Erdogan could have done the thing he most wants to do

Analysts believe Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Egypt visit isdesigned to strengthen Turkey's influence in the region and isolate Israel

A retired teacher died Monday after riot police tear-gassed an anti-Erdogan rally;