With the reelection of the combative populist who's run the country for two decades, concerns are growing about Turkey's democracy and direction in the world.

The longtime leader overcame dissatisfaction over high inflation and a slow earthquake response to secure another five-year term as president.

Turkish voters have given President Recep Tayyip Erdogan another term in office, extending what's already been two decades of dominance that has seen him weaken the country's democracy.

Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan overcame the strongest opposition he's faced in years. The win cements his power and signifies the endurance of his one-man executive rule.

Turkey's voters head to the polls this weekend in a decisive runoff vote — the first time voters have ever gone to the ballot box in a second-round vote for a new president.

More than two and a half months since the devastating earthquakes in Turkey, hundreds of people are still searching for the remains of their missing loved ones.

Two months after the deadly earthquakes in southern Turkey, millions of survivors are coping with the mental health toll of the horrific disaster.

A handful of students return to a school in Gaziantep, Turkey, that seeks to help revive old Syrian and Turkish music and integrate refugees.

Those living in the devastated earthquake zone of southern Turkey mark a subdued month of Ramadan.

As the month of Ramadan starts, residents of southern Turkey are struggling to mark the holiday as they remain displaced and devastated by last month's earthquakes.

Turkey's elections are in May, and the president wants another term. But people angry over the government's slow response to last month's earthquake disaster may influence the vote.

One Turkish city near the areas devastated by last month's earthquakes is applying what it's learned in hosting war refugees to how to welcome quake evacuees.

"NATO will become stronger with Finland's membership and thus, I believe, will play an active role in maintaining global security and stability," Turkey's president said Friday.

What began as anger at the hijab law grew into a bigger movement as Iranians said they were fed up with the regime's corruption, economic mismanagement and oppression of its citizens.

A month after the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, the massive loss of life and ongoing needs are finally becoming clear.

Nearly a month since the earthquakes that devastated parts of Turkey and Syria, thousands of displaced people are being moved into container housing — where they might be for a year or more.

The hijab has a long and fraught political history in Iran. What does the hijab mean to the Islamic Republic and its survival?

It's been more than five months since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody, which sparked mass protests in Iran. But part of what fueled them was a sense of economic desperation.

A government crackdown has successfully scared demonstrators off the streets in most of Iran, but conversations with regular people reveal a simmering frustration with the regime.

Iran's government has barely given an inch after months of widespread protests. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly asks Ali Vaez, the Iran Project's director at the International Crisis Group, what happens next.