The top election authority has finally set Nov. 1 as the exact date for Turkey’s early elections, with its head stating that it took “seasonal conditions” into consideration while making its decision.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has urged opposition parties to unclench their fists and turn swords into ploughshares if they want to form a coalition with the Justice and Development Party (AKP).
Gathered with the newly elected deputies of his party, Davutoğlu called on other political parties, which have intentions of forming a coalition government, to have discussions with the AKP.
“Let’s talk [about the] future of the country. We can’t get to the field with fists,” he said on June 16.
Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) said on Thursday it was open to all options for a coalition government other than with the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), and that President Tayyip Erdoğan should remain within his constitutional limits.
The HDP was a big winner in a national election on Sunday, crossing the 10 percent threshold to enter parliament for the first time and helping to deprive the AK Party, founded by Erdoğan, of the overall majority it had held for more than a decade.
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.
La mayor pesadilla del presidente de Turquía se llamó en la noche del domingo Semo. Semo era uno de los miles de kurdos que, tras votar en masa, tomaron las calles de la ciudad kurda de Diyarbakir celebrando la entrada en el parlamento del Partido Democrático de los Pueblos (HDP). "Ésta es una victoria de kurdos, pero también de turcos, de alevíes, de armenios, de laz y de circasianos. El pueblo ha ganado", declaró Semo a EL MUNDO.
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.
Turkey's three leading opposition parties slammed the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) over what they portrayed as a weakened democracy, worsened economy and botched Syria policy during their May 30 rallies.
"Would you say 'yes' to HDP to end the system of slavery?" the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş asked hundreds of thousands of his party's supporters during their campaign rally at Kazlıçeşme Square in Istanbul.
La oposición denuncia que las intervenciones del jefe de Estado a favor del partido gobernante violan la neutralidad que le exige la Carta Magna
Las críticas a la sobreexposición mediática en precampaña de Recep Tayyip Erdogan ocupan en la agenda el hueco de las promesas electorales. A pesar de que su cargo lo obliga a ser neutral, el presidente Erdogan disimula poco al pedir votos para el gobernante Partido Justicia y Desarrollo (AKP). Ahmet Davutoglu, elegido por Erdogan como primer ministro al dejar el AKP para ser jefe de Estado, defendió a su mentor el domingo en un mitin.
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 survey by Koç University in Istanbul made public on May 6 revealed that the public trust for fair elections in Turkey has declined, as the country heads toward one of the most critical elections in decades on June 7.
The survey, carried out with the support of the Open Society Foundation and Ohio State University over the last two months across Turkey, shows that only 25 percent think the elections will be totally fair. You can read the details in our headline story.
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.
Turkey’s main opposition party leader has warned citizens against provocations in the run-up to the June 7 parliamentary election, as he indicated he had been informed of the probability of such provocations.
“The [ruling Justice and Development Party] AKP has become more aware that it is losing blood every day. It will resort to all kinds of ways to stay in power, including provocations” said Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of the main opposition, social democratic Republican People’s Party (CHP).
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).
Two of Turkey’s opposition parties have kicked-off their foreign election campaigns in Germany over the weekend, targeting the more than 2.7 million Turkish voters living abroad.
The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) initiated its foreign election campaign in the German city of Oberhausen, where MHP head Devlet Bahçeli slammed European leaders who used the word “genocide” to define the 1915 killing of Anatolian Armenians.
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 provisional candidate lists for Turkey’s upcoming June 7 parliamentary elections were announced on April 15, finalizing the review process of the candidacy lists submitted by the country’s political parties to the Supreme Election Board (YSK).
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 main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has named an Armenian candidate in the first place on their final candidate list for the upcoming elections on June 7 in a move to prioritize candidates with different backgrounds, according to the media reports.
Lawyer Selina Özuzun Doğan has been named by the CHP in the first place for Istanbul’s second region in the June 7 elections.
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