Tag: Elections
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
Jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan. The jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) called on the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) to remain “impartial” in the upcoming İstanbul mayoral election, a Kurdish academic told ...
ISTANBUL,— The Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) said on Friday its strategy of supporting the opposition in the Istanbul mayoral election has not changed despite a last-minute call from Turkey’s jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan ...
(Bloomberg) — It’s not who wins the electoral sweepstakes in Istanbul this Sunday that could dictate the market’s mood for months to come. Anything but another divisive photo finish would put investors at ease, according ...
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 ...
If Turkey can hang on to the remaining threads of its democracy and the fractured political opposition can organise itself effectively, it might not bode well for the future of president Erdogan and his ruling ...
Istanbul is one of the most famous cities in the world, on account of a storied history encompassing myriad great events. As Byzantium, it was first the fortress of the eastern Roman Empire and then ...