a soft-spoken veteran of Erdoğan’s Justice and Development party (AKP), has quietly established himself as one of the strongman’s most trusted lieutenants and a linchpin in Turkey’s sweeping economic ...

She likened this attitude to the three decades of authoritarian rule known as the “New Order” under former strongman Suharto (who was also Prabowo’s father-in-law). “It’s so embarrassing that our ...

When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan appointed Cevdet Yılmaz as vice-president in 2023, the former bureaucrat’s eastern hometown of Bingöl burst into celebration: revellers set off fireworks, ...