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Syria’s interim Foreign Minister Assad Hassan al-Shibani met with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on January 15 in Ankara, marking the first such visit since the recent regime change in Syria. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan was also present at the closed-door meeting held at the Presidential Compound in Beştepe district in Ankara. The high-level meeting
Türkiye mourns 8-year-old Narin Güran, whose lifeless body was found in the southeastern city of Diyarbakır 19 days after her disappearance, a case that has gripped the country and reignited debates about child safety. Narin’s case is not an isolated incident. In the just first half of 2024, 343 children died due to preventable causes
Have you seen the 2010 short animation of Serge Avedikian called “Chienne d’histoire”? It tells the story of 80,000 stray dogs, forcibly rounded up and exiled to a remote island in Istanbul in 1910. The dogs died in a cruel manner with their cries echoing through Istanbul for days. The event known as “Hayırsızada Dog
Ahead of the local elections to be held in March 2024, less than a year after the major presidential and parliamentary elections, Turkish political parties are in search of new strategies to take over the local governments, which will also shape the post-election political landscape of Turkish politics. While opposition seems to be shattered, President
While the Taliban celebrated its second year of regaining power on August 15 after the withdrawal of US-led forces, Turkish women’s rights associations appealed to the United Nations’ Special Coordinator leading the preparation of an independent report on Afghanistan with a letter, emphasising Afghan women’s rights. “As women in Turkey, where the basic principles of
The main opposition Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu announced that he will re-run for the mayoralty chair for the megacity in the 2024 local elections. “I am once again starting off to take Istanbul,” İmamoğlu said on August 15 at a press conference in Istanbul. “I am taking a risk;
Smiling faces in the central Tandoğan square of the capital Ankara, as almost every each of them whom I ask if they would like to comment on elections say “everything will be beautiful,” with a full confidence that the opposition’s presidential candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu will win the critical race to be held tomorrow, on May
As Türkiye set to hold critical presidential and parliamentary elections in less than three days, Homeland Party (Memleket Partisi) leader and independent presidential candidate Muharrem İnce has announced that he is withdrawing from the election race, pushing the ballot balance towards CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu’s favor. “I offered a third alternative to Türkiye. I tried
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan signed the presidential decree to bring the critical presidential and general elections forward to May 14, while the political parties are closing ranks in search of unlikely alliances, as even the smallest parties may have an impact in the head-to-head race. President Erdoğan, on March 10, officially set the election
The government is systematically attacking Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, said the mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu, on December 28 in response to a recent terror investigation filed against the mayoralty following the mayor’s conviction on insult charges. “Attacks against us are carried out within a certain timetable and discipline. These are not ordinary incidents. Whether they are judges