ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey's foreign minister, Abdullah Gul, was elected president on Tuesday, the parliament speaker said, in a major triumph for the Islamic-rooted government after months of ...

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After the two previous ballots did not afford him the necessary majority, Abdullah Gül has been elected president in the third round. He will take over from Sezer at 7.30 pm this evening. In the third ...

ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey's new president approved a cabinet Wednesday comprised of figures with both Islamist and secular backgrounds, a day after promising to respect secular principles. Abdullah Gul, ...

Turkish President Abdullah Gul speaks during a press conference in Ankara, April 8, 2014. Editor at Large Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul deepened a mystery surrounding the future of the country’s ...

Drinking tea with the President of Turkey has charms enough so that I wish there were no need to report the disturbing talk that went with it--of Iranian rulers and nuclear bombs. But the occasion was ...

THE GUARDIAN Originally shot for The Guardian. Pictured is Abdullah Gul, he is president of Turkey, these pictures were taken during a state visit to the UK, the first by a Turkish president in 23 ...

The leading candidate for president in Turkey, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, failed to garner enough support to win a decisive victory in Monday's first round of voting, but parliament members ...

The question for Europe is no longer whether it should become a global power, but whether it can do so democratically and in time to shape, rather than endure, the new world order that is now emerging ...

Turkish site ElmaDergisi is reporting that Apple is preparing to open a second store in Istanbul, this time in the Asian side of the city. The city of Istanbul uniquely straddles both the European and ...