Secular Opposition Crushes pro-Islam AKP in Turkey's Local Elections
( Globalvoices.org ) - Turkey's local elections which took place on March 31, will go down in history as one …
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( Globalvoices.org ) - Turkey's local elections which took place on March 31, will go down in history as one …
Turkey will hold a May 28 runoff election to determine its next president.
Turkey will hold a May 28 runoff election to determine its next president.
(ISTANBUL) -- Voters in Turkey will return to the polls soon as no candidate was able to receive 50% of voting in the first round of the critical presidential election. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has ruled the country for 20 years and has won the majority of the elections, got 49.2% of the May
Moe Zoyari/Bloomberg via Getty Images(ISTANBUL) -- Voters in Turkey will return to the polls soon as no candidate was able to receive 50% of voting in the first round of the critical presidential election. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has ruled the country for 20 years and has won the majority of the elections, got 49.2% of the May 14 vote, while his Social Democrat rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu who was nominated by the opposition as a joint candidate, received at 44.5%. Independent Nationalist candidate Sinan Ogan got over 5% of the vote and also positioned himself in a strong position by a...