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ANKARA (Reuters) - Paving the way for Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to run for a fourth term in office is "on our agenda", the spokesman for the president's ruling party said on Monday, adding ...
Hundreds of people rallied outside the Istanbul courthouse in support of Imamoglu, who was re-elected mayor of Turkey's largest city last year in a vote that saw Erdogan's AK Party (AKP) suffer ...
ISTANBUL (Reuters) -President Tayyip Erdogan fiercely criticised social media companies on Monday, saying they sought to "muzzle the Palestinian people's voices", after Turkey blocked access to ...
Erdogan and his rival Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu both failed to secure a majority in the first round on 14 May and the election went to a run-off for the first time in Turkish history. On 28 May Erdogan won the election securing 52.18 percent of the vote and claimed victory after 99.4% of the votes were counted in the second round as the Supreme ...
During the run-up to the election, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared his intentions to hold rallies in all 81 Provinces of Turkey under the guise of 'public openings'. Most opposition and media commentators, however, have denounced the excuse of 'public openings' as a sham and have branded Erdoğan's rallies as an open political ...
The President of Turkey is subject to term limits, and may serve at most two five-year terms. [10] If snap elections were held before the end of the second term, a third term would be permitted. [11] [12] Snap elections can be held either with the consent of 60% of the MPs in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey or ordered by presidential ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won reelection last month despite a battered economy and a cost-of-living crisis that experts say are exacerbated by his unconventional economic policies.
On Thursday July 21, six days after the failed coup d’état, Turkey’s parliament approved a bill declaring a state of emergency allowing the government to rule by decree for three months. [10] On the same day, Erdogan announced that the European Convention on Human Rights had been suspended. [citation needed]