Elections in South Africa The ruling African National Congress Party (ANC) won the parliamentary elections in South Africa with 57.51% of the vote, the election commission reported. General elections, during which the country’s parliament and national government headed by the president are elected, were held in South Africa on Wednesday. According to the data of the electoral commission, the opposition ...
A spokesman for Turkish President Ibrahim Kalin and the Turkish Foreign Ministry strongly criticized a report prepared by the American International Commission on Religious Freedom. The International Commission on Religious Freedom (USCIRF) recently published its annual report on the topic of the rights and freedoms of Religious minorities in countries around the world. According to the document, Turkey was granted ...
Yesterday, the Turkish Central election commission made a final decision in regard to the contested election results for mayor of Istanbul, which took place on March 31. After the candidate from the opposition Republican People’s Party (NPP), Ekrem İmamoğlu, declared victory with a margin of only 13,729 votes, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) launched an appeal process to ...
Exactly a year ago, on May 8, 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump took a pivotal decision on pulling his country unilaterally out of the international nuclear agreement on the Iran nuclear deal brokered by international mediators — the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany. Trump claimed that the Administration of his predecessor in the Oval Office, ...
Türkiye’de yapılan 31 Mart yerel seçimlerini CHP adayı Ekrem İmamoğlu’nun 13 bin 729oy farkı ile kazanmasının ardından günlerdir tartışılan İstanbul seçimleriyle ilgili son sözü Yüksek Seçim Kurulu (YSK) söyledi. YSK 4’e karşı 7 oy çokluğu ile İstanbul seçimlerini iptal etti. Kararın açıklanmasının ardından, muhalefet partilerinden tepki mesajları yükselirken, AB ve AP yetkililerinden de dikkat çeken açıklamalar peş peşe geldi. MAZBATA ...
Parliamentary elections in South Africa will be held on May 8, 2019, for the sixth time since the end of apartheid in 1994. Africans will also vote for candidates in the provincial legislative assemblies. In addition, a new president will be elected. The current atmosphere The atmosphere in South Africa in recent months is one of instability. This has more ...
On April 4, the European parliament endorsed amendments to the EU Gas Directive. A total of 465 MEPs voted for the amendments and another 95 voted against them. The European authorities claim the changes will boost competition on the European gas market and bring down the prices for consumers. The Nord Stream 2 pipeline, currently built across the floor of ...
Israel offensive On May 4, the Israel Defense Forces announced an air strike on dozens of targets in the Gaza Strip. The office of the Turkish news agency Anadolu in the Gaza Strip was hit in the course of the offensive. Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu called the incident an example of aggression on the Israeli side, and an act of violence against ...
Büyük bölümünü, AK Parti’nin tabanının oluşturduğu muhafazakar mahallede, bir yıldan beri dile getirilen “yeni siyasi oluşum” iddiaları, Şubat ayında dört yapraklı yonca sembolüyle kurulan bir siteyle ete kemiğe büründü. Ancak bu sitenin arkasında kimler olduğu, bu kişilerin AK Parti’ye alternatif olacak yeni siyasi hareketin tamamımı temsil edip etmediği iki aydan beri tartışılsa da, artık bu konunun önemli bir gündem maddesi ...
Europe Assange arrested On April 11, Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, was arrested in London after Ecuador revoked political asylum earlier granted to the journalist. Since 2012, Assange has been held in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Britain is likely to extradite Assange to the US against Assange’s wishes. Assange is accused in the United States of cyber ...