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18 May 2023
Turkey's opposition leader vowed Thursday to send back millions of migrants in a strident message aimed at winning the backing of an ultra-nationalist who helped push last weekend's presidential vote to a runoff.
17 May 2023
Turkey's opposition tried on Wednesday to recover from a crushingly disappointing election performance and launch a new attack aimed at beating President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a May 28 runoff. Secular leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu huddled with the other five heads of his alliance on Wednesday to plot a harder-edged strategy for ending Erdogan's two-decade domination…
17 May 2023
An also-ran who helped push Turkey to its first run-off election on May 28 is using his new-found fame to make ultra-nationalism mainstream and tease over a second-round endorsement. A dissident expelled from a far-right group, Sinan Ogan had spent most of his career on the periphery of Turkish politics before his unexpected score in…
16 May 2023
Turkey's secular opposition leader may have succeeded in forcing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan into his first ever runoff, but his chances of winning on May 28 are remote.
14 May 2023
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 Muslim nation on a more secular course.
9 May 2023
The foreign ministers of Turkey and Syria will hold their first official meeting on Wednesday since the start of Syrian civil war more than a decade ago, officials said. The talks in Moscow will also involve the top diplomats of Russia and Iran, Turkey's foreign ministry said in a statement. The announcement delivers a diplomatic…
8 May 2023
The Chris Oyakhilome Foundation International (COFI) has responded swiftly and impressively to the victims of the Turkey and Syria earthquakes through its Hope Relief Mission. Over the course of three days, from 1st to 3rd May 2023, COFI volunteers, led by Pastor Victor Uba, in collaboration with Loveworld UK, distributed over 5000 boxes of relief…
26 Apr 2023
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday cancelled his planned appearances due to a stomach bug less than three weeks before Turkey's crunch election. The 69-year-old leader's announcement came in the heat of a hard-fought campaign in what is widely viewed as Turkey's most important election of its post-Ottoman era. Erdogan had three appearances in the…
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