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Polls close in presidential runoff in Turkey with Erdogan fighting for thi
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Erdogan is going head-to-head with opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu. In the first round of voting on May 14, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan secured a nearly five-point lead over Kilicdaroglu. However, he fell short of the 50 per cent threshold required to win.
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Erdogan counts on nationalism, security and defiance of the West to win th
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
In the inconclusive elections held on May 14, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan beating expectations, defied dozens of polls predicting that his rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu will lead the elections and proved that he correctly focussed on winning over nationalists and promising a strong
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Russia agrees to extend Ukraine grain deal for another two months: Turkish
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Russia has agreed to extend the Ukraine Black Sea grain deal for another two months.
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Erdogan claims 1.7 million people attended his mass rally in Istanbul
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
With less than a week left for presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkiye, the country's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a mass rally in Istanbul on Sunday with at least 1.7 million people attending, Turkish News Agency Anadolu reported.
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Turkish star Burak Deniz grooving to Salman Khan's song is too good to mis
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Turkish star Burak Deniz is currently in India. He is best known for his performances in projects like 'The Ignorant Angels' and 'ShahMaran'.
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Turkey neutralizes ISIS leader in Syria: President Erdogan
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Turkish President said that their national intelligence organisation has been following the Daesh "so-called" leader, who has a code name Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi, for a long time, Erdogan aid in a live interview on Turkish broadcaster TRT Turk.
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Turkish President honours Israeli rescue workers who saved lives after ear
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The Israeli rescue mission was one of the first to arrive to provide aid after the earthquake and succeeded in rescuing 19 survivors from the ruins.
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Turkish govt banning activities of East Turkestan Turks: Report
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
China's tactics of oppressing the Uyghur Muslims, who are fighting for freedom, appears to have rubbed off on Turkey as they are restricting the activities of East Turkestan, Yucel Tanay writes in Voice Against Autocracy.
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Young Uyghur gives video testimony about detention of uncle in China in fo
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Nefise Oghuz gave the statement in four languages - Uyghur, English, Mandarin and Turkish and shared it on social media platforms, including Twitter and Facebook.
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Turkish President Erdogan calls Israeli counterpart over security escalati
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
According to a readout from Isaac Herzog's office, Erdogan initiated the phone call and expressed his condolences to the Israeli people for the separate attacks Friday in the West Bank, where two sisters were killed and their mother was critically injured, and in Tel Aviv, where an Italian t
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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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Finland's membership will make alliance stronger: NATO Gen Secy
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
NATO Gen Secy said, "I welcome the vote by the Turkish Grand National Assembly to ratify Finland's membership in NATO. All 30 NATO allies have now ratified the accession protocol."
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