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Turkey’s fractured opposition unites to unseat Erdoğan

Turkey's bickering opposition leaders ended months of fierce debate Monday and agreed to name the head of the main secular party as their joint...

Turkey’s opposition bloc nominates CHP chairman as its joint presidential candidate

A bloc of six Turkish opposition parties has nominated Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, 74, leader of the country’s main opposition party, as its joint presidential candidate...

Nationalist leader returns to opposition bloc after split

Meral Akşener, leader of the nationalist İYİ (Good) Party, who last week broke with an opposition alliance due to its plans to nominate the...

CHP chair urges unity as nationalist leader’s break with opposition bloc prompts disappointment, anger

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on Friday urged calm and unity among the opposition against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan after...

CHP chairman likely to be named opposition bloc’s presidential candidate

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the chair of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), is likely to be nominated as the presidential candidate of an opposition...

Elections will be held as scheduled, Turkey’s opposition leader says

Turkey’s main opposition leader has said the country will hold its presidential and parliamentary elections as scheduled this year and that postponing the vote...

Concerns rise as Turkey debates postponing elections for a year amid earthquake recovery

Debates in Turkey over whether the government can postpone elections scheduled for June as the country grapples with the aftermath of two major earthquakes that...

Earthquake disaster brings ‘serious difficulties’ for Turkish elections in May: report

The devastating scale of Monday's earthquake in southern Turkey poses "serious difficulties" for elections planned for mid-May, a Turkish official told Reuters on Thursday. This...

Deadly earthquake puts Erdoğan under pressure in May polls

The stakes could hardly be higher for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Just three months before the biggest test of his political career, a massive...

Poll shows Turkey’s opposition bloc edging ahead of Erdoğan’s alliance

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Public Alliance, which includes his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its ally, the far-right Nationalist Movement Party...

HDP asks top court to conclude its closure case after elections

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), which is the subject of a closure case, has submitted a petition to the Constitutional Court requesting that...

Turkey’s bickering opposition seeks unity against Erdoğan

On the face of it, the timing could not be better for Turkey's fractured opposition to end President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's two-decade grip on...

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