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
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced the deposit of $ 5 billion as a deposit in the Turkish Central Bank through the Saudi Fund for Development, on Monday. And a press release stated that the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Saudi Fund for Development, Ahmed bin … Read more
Jakarta – The earthquake shook again Turki. A magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook eastern Turkey on Monday (27/2), killing one person and injuring dozens of others. The government disaster agency said the quake also caused several buildings that had been damaged in the previous quake to collapse. Reported by the news agency AFPMonday (27/2/2023), the epicenter … Read more
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited, on Monday, the headquarters of the Saudi relief team participating in efforts to help the victims of the devastating earthquake that struck the country, according to video footage broadcast by the Saudi Al-Ekhbariya channel. Al-Ekhbariya commented, saying that the Turkish president visited the … Read more