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Turkey: Presidential candidate Ince pulls out of race to bolster chances f
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
His centrist party, Homeland, will continue to compete for seats in the parliamentary race.
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The forthcoming elections could be the most consequential in Turkey's rece
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
The opposition alliance has promised that, if elected, Turkey will to return to sound economic policies, restore parliamentary democracy and make serious changes to Erdogan's current foreign policy.
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Turkey: Erdogan terms his opponent Kemal Kilicdaroglu as "LGBT person"
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
"We know that Mr Kemal is an LGBT person," Erdogan said at a rally in the city of Giresun on Thursday.
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World watching Turkey elections with bated breath
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
The May 14 presidential and general elections in Turkey are being watched by governments all over the world with bated breath, as for the first time in 20 years, the country's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could lose the elections and a new government may come to power under Kema
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In forthcoming Turkey elections, authoritarian Erdogan faces biggest test
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The forthcoming elections are expected to decide the future course of Turkey's economy which is in a bad shape due to Erdogan's unorthodox policy of low-interest rates that caused inflation to run out of control and the value of the Turkish lira to plummet.
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Can mild-mannered 'Turkey's Gandhi' Kilicdaroglu unseat authoritarian Erdo
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Polls suggest it will be a tight race for both the presidency and the parliament. Last week Erdogan officially announced that the presidential and parliamentary elections, which are viewed by many people as the most crucial in Turkey for decades, will be held on May 14, that is a month be
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Erdogan's opponents are indicted so that they are excluded from the Presid
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The mayor of Istanbul Ekrem Imamoglu, who is seen as one of most popular opponents of Erdogan, and the leader of the main opposition Republican Party Kemal Kilicdaroglu have already been indicted for speaking ill of Turkey, and under the draconian laws of the country, if convicted, will b
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Erdogan vows to send 1 million refugees back to Syria
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus] May 9 (ANI): Last Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a reversal of his previous policy, declared that his government was working on a project for "the voluntary and honourable return of 1 million Syrian refugees" back to their homeland.
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Granting citizenship to Syrian refugees could tip the scales in Turkey's e
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus] April 25 (ANI): The question of granting citizenship to refugees from Syria and Afghanistan is gradually becoming a controversial issue in Turkey, as the leader of the main opposition Republican People's Party Kemal Kilicdaroglu openly accuses President Recep Tayyip Erdog
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Turkish opposition says Erdogan can't manage the country
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], November 22 (ANI): As the Turkish lira is in a free fall, most Turks are finding it hard to make ends meet and polls show that Erdogan's AKP party has been consistently losing votes, opposition CHP leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu and IYI Party leader Meral Aksener declared after
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Turkish Opposition says Erdogan's move to expel 10 Envoys linked to domest
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Tankara [Turkey], October 24 (ANI/Sputnik): Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's decision to declare personae non grata ambassadors of 10 countries that have called on Ankara to release human rights activist Osman Kavala is designed to justify Turkey's economic crisis, main opposition Re
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