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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
On the day when the contentious draft bill that stipulates amendments in the numerous laws such as press law, internet law and criminal code which was dubbed as “Censorship Law” by the opposition and “Disinformation Law” by the ruling block, voted at the parliament on October 13, a banner was circulating in the social media.
Above, you see 11 national-level journalism and press associations together at Ankara’s Ulus Square on June 22 making a statement to the press. It may seem like a regular demonstration to you, not meaning much. But it certainly does mean a lot to those who have some familiarity with the Turkish political scene, where the
Abuse of a child in a Directorate of Religious Affairs’ Qur’an Course; a party’s vice-president receiving the Metropolitan Municipality tender; a cocaine trial related to a former president of a major association; investigation of a tender of a metropolitan municipality subsidiary; suspicious acquittal of a business person; claims related to presidential administration affairs; photograph of
You may be wondering why on February 17 Turkish-speaking internet freaked out about a word that has no official translation in the English-Turkish dictionary: Geççek. That is because Turkey’s mega-pop music-star Tarkan released his latest hit with a 4-minute music video on February 17, which became an internet sensation because of its lyrics, as social
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