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Turkey’s presidential elections appeared to be heading toward a second-round runoff on Monday, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has ruled his country with a firm grip for 20 years, leading over his chief challenger, but…

ISTANBUL: Turkey's biggest election of its post-Ottoman era confounded pollsters and threw up surprises that underscored the difficulty of gauging the mood of the sharply polarised country.President Recep Tayyip Erdogan came within a…

Kemal Kilicdaroglu, presidential candidate of Turkey's main opposition alliance, speaks onstage at the CHP headquarters on election night in Ankara, Turkey. (Image: Reuters)Turkey is most likely headed towards runoff polls as neither…

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The NATO member's footprint in both Europe and the Middle East makes the election's outcome as critical for Washington and Brussels as it is for Damascus and Moscow. But Erdogan's first decade of economic revival and warming relations with…

Issued on: 14/05/2023 - 07:59 Turkey on Sunday voted in a momentous election that could extend President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's 21-year grip on power or put the mostly…

Türkiye’s strongman President Recep Tayyip Erdogan this week termed the May 14 elections as the ‘fight of his life’ signalling that the opposition unity under rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu poses a significant challenge to his electoral…

from our special correspondent in Istanbul, Turkey – In the Kasimpasa neighbourhood of Istanbul where he grew up, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s former neighbours describe a generous young man who was…

ISTANBUL: Istanbul barber Hakim Ekinci, a long-time supporter of Tayyip Erdogan, won't be voting for the president next Sunday, blaming his economic policies for eroding Turks' purchasing power and leaving many unable to afford even basic…

DEFEND "ALL WOMEN" Representing the traditionally secular CHP party of Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Kilicdaroglu has worked hard to gain the trust of religiously conservative women who wear the headscarf. Kilicdaroglu has…