Recep Tayyip Erdogan has a slight lead in Turkey’s presidential election. So far, Erdogan has won 50.8 percent of the vote. His opponent, Kemal Klchdarolu, got 43.4 percent of the votes. It is indicated that the election results will be out soon. The world is watching this election to see if Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who … Read more
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – Activists circulated on social media, a previous tweet by the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, swearing that the Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, “will pay the price dearly,” after the recent Turkish-Syrian rapprochement. Erdogan had said in the circulated and published tweet on May 5, 2013: “I say to Assad: … Read more
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – The head of the Turkish Presidency’s Communication Department, Fakhruddin Altun, denied, on Wednesday, the “allegations” related to the health of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to the Turkish “TRT” channel. According to a tweet posted by Altun, via Twitter, Erdogan will participate, Thursday, via video, in the opening … Read more
However, the expert notes that there is still a month before the presidential elections in Turkey and the situation can and will change. “If we talk about March and the increase in the rating of Kemal Kilicdaroglu, then there are several factors. The main thing is that the key opposition parties were able to unite … Read more
On Thursday, Türkiye became the latest NATO member state to endorse a request Finland’s accession to the US-led coalition following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Turkish deputies unanimously approved the accession of the Scandinavian country, two weeks after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave his public blessing to Finland’s accession. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg … Read more
The NDP and five allied parties will campaign against Erdogan’s “one-man rule,” its co-chair Pervin Buldan said. While the PDP did not directly support opposition leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the move avoids a formal split between the president’s rivals, who are eager to present a united front ahead of the May 14 vote. PDP voters mostly … Read more
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – Activists circulated on social media, videos and photos from the tour of the Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, with his Egyptian counterpart, Sameh Shoukry, at the headquarters of the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Cairo. Activists highlighted the passage of the two ministers during the tour on a … Read more
In two months time Turkey will hold perhaps the most important parliamentary and presidential elections in years. For voters, there is a clear choice: continue with a strongman in the form of incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan? Or back to a parliamentary system with a prime minister under the leadership of the opposition? The elections … Read more
10 mrt 2023 om 13:51 The Turkish presidential and parliamentary elections will take place on May 14. On Friday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed the pre-election decree at a televised ceremony. The elections were initially scheduled to take place on June 18. Among other things, the traditional pilgrimage to Mecca and school holidays have been … Read more
Jakarta – After weeks of tough debate, the opposition in Turkey on Monday finally announced their nominee, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, head of the center-left Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (CHP) party, as their nominee to face President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in elections in May. But the six-party opposition alliance has been overshadowed by long feuds as other parties … Read more