Recep Tayyip Erdogan has presided over Turkey for 17 years, in which time the country has changed irreversibly. Here's how he got the power to do it.

Though Erdogan is positioned to be the focus of power in the new government, under current laws he cannot become Prime Minister. At a rally in 1997, he read a poem: “The minarets are our bayonets.

Born Feb. 26, 1954, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan began his political career as the mayor of Istanbul, Turkey, from 1994 to 1998. ... the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers ...

Y ou could call it poetic justice. Back in 1999, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, then an up-and-coming young mayor of Istanbul with populist appeal and Islamist leanings, was sentenced to 10 months in jail ...

Born in February 1954, Recep Tayyip Erdogan grew up the son of a coastguard, on Turkey's Black Sea coast. When he was 13, his father decided to move to Istanbul, hoping to give his five children a ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan hopes to extend his rule into a third decade in a May 14 election but faces his toughest test yet at the ballot box, with his popularity hit by a cost-of-living ...

Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 1998, shortly after being sentenced to jail for "inciting hatred" with a poem (Reuters) ... the minarets our bayonets, and the believers our soldiers.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won a third term as president, according to preliminary results from the nation’s runoff election Sunday. He finished first in the initial round of ...

Turkey headed for a runoff vote after President Tayyip Erdogan led over his opposition rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu in Sunday's election but fell short of an outright majority to extend his 20-year ...

When Recep Tayyip Erdoğan first led his Justice and Development party (AKP) to victory, he used a campaign of fear and hope: promising an economic renaissance and to save Turkey from rival ...

President Tayyip Erdogan has defied forecasts of his political demise in Turkey's elections, rallying voters with a potent mix of religious conservatism and nationalism that looks set to propel ...