CHP’s Cyprus branch sides with Ozel as Turkish political crisis deepens
The Cyprus branch office of Turkish opposition political party the CHP has sided with Ozgur Ozel, with the party and Turkish politics at large now engulfed by a crisis after ...
What Erdoğan’s reelection means for Turkey’s political system, economy and foreign policy
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been reelected as president, ensuring that his term as leader of Turkey will extend to a quarter century.
The electorate returned Erdoğan to power ...
Turkey votes in election runoff, Erdogan well placed to sustain rule (Updated)
Turks voted on Sunday in a presidential runoff that could see Tayyip Erdogan extend his rule into a third decade and persist with Turkey’s increasingly authoritarian path, muscular foreign ...
Erdogan rival sharpens tone on migrants before Turkey runoff
Tayyip Erdogan’s rival in Turkey’s presidential race accused the government oof allowing 10 million “irregular” migrants to enter the country, marking a nationalist turn in his rhetoric ahead of ...
Doctored video fuels tensions in Turkey’s close election race
A doctored video splicing footage of President Tayyip Erdogan’s main rival and a Kurdish militant chief and showing them uttering the same slogan has raised tensions ahead of a ...
Our View: Will Turks vote for Erdogan’s authoritarianism?
It is astonishing that the candidate of the six-party Nation Alliance, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, is only marginally ahead of president Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of Sunday’s elections in Turkey. The ...
Turkish opposition leader in north to meet earthquake victims’ families
Turkish main opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu is visiting the north on Thursday to meet the Turkish Cypriot families, who lost loved ones in the earthquakes last month.
Kilicdaroglu, who is ...