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Opposition’s İmamoğlu wins again in İstanbul repeat election with some 54 percent

The Turkish opposition’s İstanbul mayoral candidate, Ekrem İmamoğlu, won again in a repeat election on Sunday, garnering more than 54 percent of the vote, according to...

PKK leader’s brother appears on state-run TRT, urges support for AKP

Osman Öcalan, brother of the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Abdullah Öcalan, has appeared on public broadcaster Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT), seeking...

Pregnant woman arrested on terrorism charges over alleged Gülen links

Zeynep Şakrak, a 30-year-old woman who is three months pregnant, was arrested in the western province of İzmir on Friday on terrorism charges due to her...

Erdoğan says even if they are Kurds, they are still human beings

In yet another controversial move to attract Kurdish voters ahead of a critical mayoral election in İstanbul on Sunday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said even if...

Nationalist politician claims PKK leader sought to prevent HDP abuse of İstanbul vote

Devlet Bahçeli, the chairman of Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), has claimed that a recent letter from the leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)...

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...

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