The election results "could be a gamechanger for Turkey," Hakan Akbas, a senior advisor at the Albright Stonebridge Group, told CNBC. "It could breathe new life into Turkey's democracy and bring fresh perspectives on tackling economic woes, city planning, and public services. But that's a ...
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...
"It is a matter of principle to wait for the results of the objections that were raised before the top election body," he said, describing European Commission's stance without respecting the judicial process as "great misfortune." In an interview published Saturday with the German newspaper Welt...
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...
土耳其执政党AKP在11月1日的选举后赢得了超过49%的选票。 土耳其总统雷克普-塔伊普-埃尔多安在他的AKP自2002年以来于6月首次失去议会多数席位后,召集了今年的第二次大选。AKP未能与任何反对党组成联盟。 .总统埃尔多安昨天对这一结果表示欢迎,他说。"国民的意愿在11月1日表现出来,有利于稳定。" ...
Election protests in TurkeySource: Agencies | April 2, 2014, Wednesday | Print Edition Riot police use water cannon to disperse protesters outside the Supreme Electoral Council in Ankara, Turkey, yesterday. Thousands of people had gathered to demonstrate against local election results which saw the...
The election came amid an economic downturn and was widely seen as a referendum on his leadership. More than 57 million people in the country were registered to vote for mayors and councillors. What are the results? Turkish media said the secularist Republican People's Party (CHP) candidate Ma...
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he election results, however, reaffirmed that the main opposition party remained largely unpopular outside major metropolitan areas, including Istanbul, Ankara and zmir. On election day, the CHP received less than 5 percent in most of the Southeast and Eastern Anatolia, as its efforts to ...
Turkey’s opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu said he would welcome a runoff election, as the preliminary results of Sunday’s vote showed neither he nor President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had yet received the majority needed to win. If no candidate wins more than 50% of the vote, they will ...