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AKP pays visit to small opposition party ahead of critical İstanbul vote

A group of officials from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on Friday paid a visit to Felicity Party (SP) headquarters in an apparent move...

İmamoğlu leads İstanbul repeat election by 5 percent, new poll suggests

A survey conducted two days before the re-run of an İstanbul mayoral election indicates that the opposition’s Ekrem İmamoğlu is ahead of his rival, the ruling...

Some 68,000 cannot vote in İstanbul polls, election authority says

Turkey’s Supreme Election Board (YSK) has announced that a total of 68,017 people will not be able to vote in İstanbul’s mayoral election scheduled for June...

[ANALYSIS] What is Sunday’s İstanbul election all about?

The latest polls show that the opposition’s candidate, Ekrem İmamoğlu, will probably be the winner of Sunday’s İstanbul mayoral election. It will be the second time,...

Kurdish party says will continue supporting opposition in Sunday vote despite Öcalan letter

The Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) on Friday announced that their strategy to support the opposition in Sunday’s İstanbul mayoral election has not changed after a...

Öcalan called on Kurds to remain ‘impartial’ in Sunday’s vote, Kurdish academic claims

The jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) called on the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) to remain “impartial” in the upcoming İstanbul mayoral election,...

İDO accused of cancelling ferry lines to İstanbul ahead of critical vote

The İDO Istanbul Fast Ferries Co. Inc., an İstanbul Municipality company operating sea buses and ferries, has been accused by the opposition of cancelling ferry lines...

33 detained in İzmir-based operation against Gülen movement followers

Turkish police teams on Thursday detained 33 individuals in an operation based in the western province of İzmir against alleged followers of the Gülen movement, the...

Erdoğan calls İmamoğlu a ‘lame duck,’ says Sunday’s vote is ‘symbolic’

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has described the opposition’s mayoral candidate in İstanbul, who won the first election on March 31, as a “lame duck” and...

Turkish journalists prevented from covering Erdoğan meeting with foreign colleagues

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, forced Turkish journalists to leave the room during a question and answer segment of a press conference with foreign journalists on Thursday. The...

Founding member of Turkish opposition party assaulted

Metin Bozkurt, one of the founding members of the İyi (Good) Party, was attacked by a group of eight unidentified individuals in İstanbul, the Cumhuriyet daily reported...

Some 415,000 Syrian babies born in Turkey since 2011: official

More than 415,000 Syrian babies have been born in Turkey since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011, said an official from Turkey's Interior...

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