ANKARA, Turkey – Suleyman Demirel, one of the dominant figures in Turkey's politics for the past half-century, died early Wednesday, hospital officials said. He was 90. Demirel died at 2:05 a.m.

In 1983, three years after a coup, Süleyman Demirel, previously five times Turkish prime minister, was still being held prisoner in a military camp. Distressed at the glowing publicity the country’s ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Suleyman Demirel, Turkey’s former president who has died at age 90, dominated his nation’s politics for much of the past half-century, serving seven terms as prime minister and ...

Suleyman Demirel, who has died aged 90, was a Turkish politician who served seven terms from 1965 as his country’s prime minister and, in 1993, became Turkey’s ninth president. Considered a man of the ...

Former Turkish president Suleyman Demirel, who once escaped an assassination attempt and went through a military coup, has died of heart failure due to respiratory tract infection at the age of 91 ...

Six years have passed since Turkish politician Suleyman Demirel's death, but he is still remembered as one of the most dominant figures of the Turkish political life, owing to his survival skills, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Süleyman Demirel, who has died aged 90, was long known as the arch-survivor of Turkish politics. A leading ...

Suleyman Demirel, former Turkish president and survivor of two military coups during his time as prime minister, has died at the age of 90. Demirel served as head of the government seven times through ...

ANKARA, Turkey, June 17 (UPI) --Former Turkish President and Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel, who was key to the nation's socioeconomic transformation of the 1960s and '70s, died Wednesday at age 90.

Suleyman Demirel, the former Turkish president, has died in the hospital. He was prime minister seven times and became the country's 9th president, ruling from 1993 until 2000. Suleyman Demirel died ...