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Last weekend’s elections offer a first glimpse of a political future beyond the reigning strongman.

Amid calls for early elections, the CHP, which garnered a majority in the municipal vote, prefers to wait instead as its leader says they would seek the...

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

ISTANBUL: Turkish authorities on Tuesday prevented the newly elected mayor of a pro-Kurdish party taking up his post and announced a re-run vote in another district where President Tayyip...

ISTANBUL -- The opposition's surprise landslide win in Turkish local elections on Sunday has given President Recep Tayyip Erdogan four years to sort o

Turkey’s electoral authorities have denied the newly elected mayor from a pro-Kurdish party the right to hold office in an eastern city. Instead, the authorities on Tuesday appointed the runner-up candidate from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s party to the position. Protesters took to the streets in the city of Van after the electoral authority revoked Abdullah Zeydan’s mandate. It cited a last-minute court decision that overturned an earlier ruling that said the politician, who has serve...

Turkish authorities detained a total of 89 people across the country for joining "unauthorized" demonstrations Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya wrote on Wednesday on X, formerly Twitter. The protests in south-eastern Turkey and the Aegean province of Izmir followed an election authority decision to prevent a newly elected mayor from the pro-Kurdish People's Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) in the south-eastern city of Van from taking his post. DEM's Abdullah Zeydan was denie...

Competitors of the March 31 local elections are demanding recounts or annulments in constituencies with contested vote margins or invalid ballot papers

Over the past two days, some eastern provinces have seen a repeat of riots associated with the PKK terrorist group's violent past. Rioters took to the...

Sinan Ülgen considers the implications of the ruling AKP’s resounding defeat in the most recent local elections.