Opinion polls show the parliamentary and presidential elections will be tight, and will mark Erdogan's biggest test in his two decades at the reins of the regional military power, NATO member and major emerging market economy. Turkey's presidential and parliamentary elections were scheduled to be ...
SPEECH - Turkish Voters Go To The Polls In A Re-run Of The Presidential Election ISTANBUL, TURKEY - MAY 28: (SPEECH) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks to his supporters during his victory in the Turkish presidential election runoff outside the president's residence in Kisikli on...
After months of campaigning by two dozen political parties, four presidential candidates and a bewildering lineup of electoral alliances, Turkish voters head to the polls, again, on Sunday, to make a critical choice between two men. The first round two weeks ago saw Erdogan clinch 49.52% of t...
many observersgot it wrong, as well as the pollsters, the opposition coalition itself, and the opposition’s presidential candidate, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, who, on the night of the election, tweeted:
ISTANBUL — Tayyip Erdogan’s presidential challenger appealed to young Turkish voters on Tuesday to support him in a May 28 election runoff, as he seeks to prevent t…
The Turkish Republic of Norther Cyrpus (TRNC) went to the polls yesterday to elect its legislature. The election was held a year before the scheduled date and resulted from a successful vote of no-confidence in the previous government. Hürriyet Daily News is reporting the following result: Turk...
In that election, the turnout was around 40% among expatriates, with 56% of those votes being cast for the AK Party, which Erdoğan founded more than a decade ago. Polls show a close race days before the referendum, putting the "Yes" vote slightly ahead, but indicate that near...
Mr. Sezer was scheduled to step down on May 16. He is now expected to stay on as a caretaker until a new parliament is elected after the July 22 polls. The Justice and Development Party is pushing to hold presidential elections concurrently with the parliamentary polls, after failing in an...
Erdogan, who has been in office since 2003 — first as prime minister and as president since 2014 — faces his most difficult election yet as Turkey's troubled economy struggles with soaring inflation. A six-party opposition alliance has yet to put forth a presidential candidate. A pro-Kur...
Meanwhile, the parliament set the election of a new president for December 14, two days before Zurabishvili’s term was set to end. Fulfilling constitutional amendments that were enacted in 2017, it was set to be the first presidential election to take place by an electoral college (composed...