Mass protests erupt in Turkey after election of Kurdish mayor annulled

Since 2016, Ankara’s military operations to prevent the formation of a Kurdish state in Syria have ... and placed first in the Kurdish provinces in the 2019 local elections, but the Interior ... Read More

Turkey Replaces Kurdish Mayor With Government Candidate Two Days After Vote

Turkey has cracked down on the pro-Kurdish political movement since the 2015 collapse of ... Separately in the southeast, a local election board annulled the election of a DEM mayor in a district ... Read More

Turkey's Kurds Could Sway Istanbul Vote in Sunday's Local Polls

Turkey's Kurds Could Sway Istanbul Vote in Sunday's Local Polls By Daren Butler and ... to Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu's win in 2019 municipal elections, which shocked Erdogan and ended 25 years of ... Read More

Turkey’s election authority reinstates pro-Kurdish mayoral election winner

the candidate of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM). The reversal is viewed as another boost for the Turkish opposition following Sunday’s local elections, which dealt ... Read More

How Turkey’s Local Elections Turned Into a Defeat for Erdogan

(Bloomberg) -- Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan won a fresh mandate in parliamentary and presidential elections last summer. But he suffered a stinging defeat against the main opposition party ... Read More

Fears of AI disinformation cast shadow over Turkish local elections

Istanbul, Turkey – As nationwide local elections ... in last May’s election as an example of disinformation directly affecting the democratic process. Muharrem Ince pulled out three days ... Read More

Local and mayoral elections May 2024: Where are they, the key dates and what to look out for

At the local elections last year, Labour became the party with the most members elected to local government for the first time since 2002. And although some experts claim people vote differently when ... Read More

Stakes are high for Turkish president, opposition in local elections

Millions of Turkish citizens will head to the polls Sunday to elect mayors and local administrators ... In the 2019 election, the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP, which is using ... Read More

Turkish local elections: What you need to know

ISTANBUL, Turkey - Turkey will hold local ... since the 2017 referendum. Before that, he was elected as president through a direct public vote in the country’s first-ever presidential elections ... Read More

Your Guide to the 2024 Elections

Trump, who announced he would seek reelection in November 2022, could become the first ex-president to win back the White House since Grover ... an array of local and national elections. Read More

Local elections 2024: Is there an election in my area?

If you live in England or Wales then the answer to this question is "yes". On 2 May, every area in the two nations will have a vote in at least one election. There is no general election but there are ... Read More