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El presidente de Turquía ha pronunciado este jueves su primer discurso tras un período de inquietante silencio posterior a las elecciones legislativas del domingo pasado. Recep Tayyip Erdogan ofreció una comparecencia dominada por una llamada al diálogo doméstico y renovados ataques a Occidente.

Tras las preceptivas referencias al acto institucional, el cierre del sustancioso programa de becas nacional, Erdogan centró sus palabras en los últimos comicios. En ellos el Partido Justicia y Desarrollo (AKP), que él lideró hasta 2014, perdió la mayoría absoluta ostentada desde 2002.

Los cerca de 54 millones de turcos que hoy están llamados a las urnas para decidir el destino de su país están ejerciendo su derecho en un ambiente, en general, tranquilo, pese a la violencia que ha precedido a estos comicios durante la polarizada campaña electoral, en la que se han producido atentados, ataques a las sedes de los partidos y peleas que han dejado media docena de muertos y cientos de heridos.

La oposición denuncia que las intervenciones del jefe de Estado a favor del partido gobernante violan la neutralidad que le exige la Carta Magna

El golpista ex jefe del Estado Mayor turco y Presidente hasta 1989,Kenan Evren, ha muerto este sábado a los 97 años en Ankara, la capital de Turquía.

Evren será recordado por el brutal golpe de Estado de 1980, por el que cumplía cadena perpetua, en el que se ejecutó a cincuenta presos y se detuvo a medio millón de personas. También por haber fundado la Constitución que sigue vigente en Turquía y por propugnar una ideología política islamonacionalista viva hoy día.

A six-member(*) cross-party delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) was in Ankara on 5 and 6 May 2015, at the invitation of the Turkish delegation to PACE, for a pre-electoral visit ahead of the 7 June 2015 parliamentary elections.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has accused both the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) and the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) of “religious indifference,” while also praising Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) for preventing the presence of fundamentalist groups such as Boko Haram and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the head of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), pledged to end poverty at his party’s rally in the Western border city of Edirne on April 26.

There will be zero poverty in four years, Kılıçdaroğlu claimed, adding, “Thirteen years ago they promised to fight poverty, corruption and bans. When the year is 2015, there are 6,200,000 people unemployed in the country. None of the children of those who made these promises are unemployed now.”

The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) officially launched its campaign for the June 7 general elections on April 11, holding its first rally in Istanbul.

Speaking at the rally, CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said his party is ready to solve all the problems Turkey is facing.

“The people are tired, the people had enough,” Kılıçdaroğlu told thousands of CHP supporters who gathered in the Kartal district on the Anatolian side for the “We applaud as a nation” rally.

The ruling party's candidate list for deputies in the upcoming parliamentary election carries the imprint of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, while more than half the current deputies have been left off the list.

A total of 175 out of 312 ruling party deputies currently in Parliament found themselves eliminated after the party's candidate list was submitted to the Supreme Election Board (YSK) by 5 p.m. on Tuesday.

Seventy of the current ruling party deputies were not able to apply to become candidates as they are on their third consecutive term in Parliament.