Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses supporters at the AK Party's "Great Istanbul Rally" on May 7, 2023, in Istanbul, Turkey, ahead of the May 14 election.Ercan Arslan /dia images via Getty Images To win the election outright a candidate must secure more than 50% of the votes...
However, the controversy seems to linger as Erdogan, also chairman of the AKP, hinted on Friday that he would push for all stages of election courts to contest the election results. "If the results of the provincial electoral councils don't overlap with ours, then the Supreme Election Counci...
Imamoglu, a 52-year-old former businessman, has been Istanbul's mayor since 2019. He attempted to run for president in Turkey's 2023 general election, but was banned by Erdogan's government from running, in a move CHP supporters say was purely political. In those elections,Erdogan's party...
May 28, 2023 Turkey elected it’s leader for the next five years via a run-off election. Recep Tayyip Erdogan defeated Kemal Kilicdaroglu by a count of 52%-48%.
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Turkey's TRT TV reported on March 31, local time, that a village in the Diyarbakir region in southeastern Turkey clashed during the local election campaign that day. The report said that the clashes occurred between two groups supporting different candidates and used weapons such as stones, ...
ANKARA, May 20 (Xinhua) -- The two blocs of Turkish political landscape are getting ready for their strategies to appeal voters of Istanbul, the biggest city of the country, for the re-run of mayoral election on June 23. Turkey's top electoral body ruled on May 6 to scrap results of ...
The last national election saw Erdogan win 52.5 percent on a turnout of more than 86 percent. Turkey has no exit polls but tends to count ballots quickly. Polling stations close at 5:00 pm (1400 GMT) and all reporting restrictions are lifted four hours later. The first results are sometim...
elections: last held on 24 June 2018 (next to be held in June 2023)election results: percent of vote by party - People's Alliance 53.7% (AKP 42.6%, MHP 11.1%), Nation Alliance 33.9% (CHP 22.6%, IYI 10%, SP 1.3%), HDP 11.7%, other 0.7%; seats by party - People's Alliance ...
Both men claimed victory, but on Monday, the Supreme Election Council (YSK) announced that Imamoglu had a slim lead with about 28,000 votes, a gap which would be difficult to close for his opponent. Losing the city where he ran as the mayor would give Erdogan a severe blow. ...