Ahmet Yener, the head of the Supreme Electoral Council said Erdogan won 52.18 per cent of the votes, while main opposition party leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu garnered 47.82 per cent
01 June,2023 05:45 PM IST | Ankara | AP
Turkiye's presidential elections appeared to be heading toward a second-round runoff on Monday, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has ruled his country with a firm grip for 20 years, leading over his chief challenger, but falling short of the votes needed for an outright win
15 May,2023 01:24 PM IST | Ankara | AP
The vote will either grant the increasingly authoritarian Erdogan a new five-year term in office or set the NATO-member country on what his opposition contender calls a more democratic path
14 May,2023 11:08 AM IST | Ankara | AP
Turkiye's opposition has long said that the country's elections are played out on an unlevel playing field
08 May,2023 03:17 PM IST | Istanbul | AP
Eid-ul-Fitr is celebrated on the first day of Shawwal, the 10th month of the Islamic lunar calendar after a month-long Ramadan fasting period
22 April,2023 12:32 PM IST | New Delhi | ANI
The airspace was closed Monday to flights taking off from and landing at Suleimaniyah International Airport, in northern Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Tanju Bilgic said
05 April,2023 09:20 PM IST | Ankara | AP
Both Finland and Sweden applied to become NATO members 10 months ago in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, abandoning decades of nonalignment
17 March,2023 09:49 PM IST | Istanbul | AP
Diplomatic relations between Ankara and Cairo have been frosty for almost a decade. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was a close ally of Egypt's previous Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi, who was ousted by the military amid widespread protests in 2013
17 March,2023 06:04 PM IST | Istanbul | APADVERTISEMENT