Tag: Turkey

Some of you may remember a number of months ago I published an interview with a journalist in Rojava, Kurdish controlled Syria, known as Woman Life Freedom (Telegram: https://t.me/womanlifefreedom , Instagram: https://instagram.com/woman_life_freedom?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== ). She, and the people she works with, were able to write a longform analysis of the...

According to the office of the Egyptian President, Turkey and Egypt will swap ambassadors for the first time since 2013. The official announcement reads below: "President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi made a phone call to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, where the President congratulated President Erdogan on his victory in the presidential...

Two weeks ago, the nation gathered to vote in the initial election for both the president and parliament. However, with none of the candidates reaching a 50% majority, the country was set for a runoff election scheduled for May 28. As the people of Turkey gathered once more for their...

The Turkish election is over. Votes have been counted. Officially, the nation is headed to a run-off election to be held on May 28th, as stated by the Turkish Supreme Election Council (YSK). The final, YSK published results put Erdogan at 49.5%, and Kilicdaroglu at 44.89%. In third place...

Polling stations in Turkey have closed and results are steadily being reported in the election that could drastically change Turkey. The Turkish election elects both a President, as well as Members of Parliament on two separate ballots. The President must win 50% of the vote, or else a run-off...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced during an interview with TRT Turk on Sunday that Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurshi was killed over the weekend in Aleppo, Syria, during an operation carried out by MIT (Turkish National Intelligence Organization). This would mark the third ISIS emir...