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The new law — currently being prepared by the Ministry of Environment and Urban Planning — will shift jurisdiction over development along the Bosporus. (Shutterstock) Supporters of the new draft law say it will resolve ...
Ekrem İmamoğlu, the newly elected mayor of İstanbul, has received executives from Amedspor, a football club based in the predominantly Kurdish Southeast, the Bold Medya news website reported. “I had promised to stand with them,” ...
After an opposition victory in Istanbul, rumours swirl of a ruling-party split What did he think he was playing at? When Turkey’s autocratic president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, strong-armed his country’s electoral watchdog into annulling the result ...
PHOTO: AFP The latest polls show that the opposition’s candidate, Ekrem İmamoğlu, will probably be the winner of Sunday’s İstanbul mayoral election. It will be the second time, but this time, everyone expects more consequences. ...
Former co-chairperson of the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtaş, who has been behind bars since November 2016, has called on his party’s base to support the opposition’s mayoral candidate in İstanbul, Ekrem İmamoğlu, ...
Popstars are political assets and the ruling party is losing them Famous faces queued up to support an AKP rival who was stripped of Istanbul’s mayorship. Mashup image taken from Indigodergis.com. On June 23, Turkey’s largest city ...
The Turkish pro-democracy opposition desperately needs to defeat Erdogan. But not by building up their candidate, Ekrem Imamoglu, as an infallible ‘savior’ Walking along a central Istanbul thoroughfare, I soon found myself being pushed and ...
Highlights The annulment of the March 31 mayoral election in Istanbul and the ordering of a do-over on June 23 raises questions about President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his government’s willingness to recognize election results ...
On May 6, Turkish opposition figure Ekrem Imamoglu became the latest politician to fall victim to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s authoritarian ambitions. In a move that has been widely characterized as a power grab by Erdogan, Turkey’s ...
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Ekrem Imamoglu, mayoral candidate of Turkey’s main opposition party, greets supporters at a rally in Istanbul.Kemal Aslan/Reuters After his party suffered a humiliating loss in Istanbul, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is down but far ...