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Turkish gov’t ready to block ‘abnormal’ social media messages on election day

The Turkish government is preparing to block “abnormal” social media messages during elections on June 24, the Cumhuriyet daily reported on Friday. According to the...

[OPINION] What to expect from Turkey’s elections

Abdullah Bozkurt In the upcoming June 24 presidential and parliamentary snap elections, I have little hope that the opposition will score a win in an...

OSCE opens Election Observation Mission ahead of Turkey’s June polls

The OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) formally opened its election observation mission in Turkey on Thursday for snap presidential and parliamentary...

Presidential candidate Demirtaş’s lawyers to apply to Constitutional Court for release

Lawyers for Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed presidential candidate from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), will apply for his release to Turkey’s Constitutional Court following...

Election authority prevents candidacy of CHP official convicted of insulting Erdoğan

Turkey’s Supreme Election Board (YSK) has found inappropriate the parliamentary candidacy of a Republican People’s Party (CHP) official from Edirne on the grounds that...

Cartoonist given one-year jail sentence due to drawing featuring Moses

Cartoonist Seyfi Şahin, who used to work for the closed-down popular humor magazine Gırgır, has been handed down a jail sentence of one year,...

AKP promises in its election manifesto to keep state of emergency in effect

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government, which released its election manifesto for the June 24 general election on Thursday, has promised to...

CHP’s İnce announces visit to Demirtaş’s family during dinner with EU ambassadors

Republican People’s Party (CHP) presidential candidate Muharrem İnce had dinner with European Union ambassadors in Ankara on Wednesday evening, telling them he would visit...

Controversial professor warns of civil war in event AKP does not win elections

Ahmet Maranki, who introduces himself as a professor of alternative medicine, has implied that a civil war could break out in Turkey if the...

Detention warrants issued for 16 military personnel over alleged Gülen links

The İzmir Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday issued detention warrants for 16 active duty and former military personnel and three others allegedly linked...

Turkey’s central bank increases interest rates as Turkish lira is in free fall

Following the Turkish lira’s record value loss against the US dollar, policy committee members of Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) held...

HDP: Turkey’s democratization depends on permanent peace

The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) held a press conference on Wednesday to share their vision on solutions regarding the Kurdish question, stressing that Turkey’s...

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