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On March 31, the Turks went to the ballot box to elect mayors for their cities. Ostensibly the election results marked President Recep Tayyip Erdoğans 15thconsecutive election victory since his (Islamist) Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to

Erdogan's ruling AKP is facing the strongest threat to their rule in the 21 years since they came to power in 2002

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of Turkey’s main opposition party, the CHP, announced on 6 March that he would be...

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the chief rival to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, makes claims in advance of presidential poll on Sunday

Ahead of the elections, Expression Interrupted analyses the approaches to media regulation and free speech of the two leading candidates: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu.

Even a hung Parliament after elections will be helpful to the progressives By Cengiz Gunes The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) established itself as a key player in Turkish politics after it secured 13 percent of the popular vote and eighty seats in Turkey’s Grand National Assembly in June 2015. This was possible because it

Turkish politicians and their parties are putting on a striking political performance as they campaign tirelessly for the upcoming presidential and...

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, seeking to renew his tenure, and İYİ (Good) Party chair Meral Akşener will cast their votes for the May 14 elections in Istanbul, while six-party Nation Alliance’s presidential candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli will head to the polls in the capital Ankara.

Kemal Derviş, Türkiye’s former economy minister, has died at the age of 74 in the hospital in Washington where he received treatment.

The significance of Turkey's May 14 election