ANKARA, Turkey — Suleyman Demirel, one of the dominant figures in Turkey’s politics for the past half-century, died early Wednesday of heart failure and a respiratory tract infection, hospital ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reporting from 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 ...

Demirel, who served as prime minister seven times through the 1960s to the 1990s and was president from 1993 to 2000, died at the Guven Hospital in Ankara where he had been undergoing treatment for a ...

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 ...

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.