Published by Al-Monitor, June 8, 2015 By noon Turkish time on June 8, 96.6% of the ballots in the more than174,000 polling stations in Turkey’s parliamentary elections were counted. The results are in: The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has lost its...
ISTANBUL – ANF – Saturday, June 6, 2015 at 9:30 AM It has been reported that 12 persons, who would serve as observers of the HDP at the ballot boxes in two districts of Istanbul during the elections on Sunday, have been detained early this morning, while...
UPDATE 6/6/15, 19h57: Democratic Society Congress (DTK) Health Assembly, SES and Amed Chamber of Medicine formed a crisis desk after the attack on HDP rally in Amed and made public their report on the death toll and number of people injured during the blasts....
Published by Carnegie Europe, May 29, 2015 The outcome of Turkey’s parliamentary election on June 7, 2015, will mark a pivotal moment for the country’s future. Postelection scenarios include, at one extreme, a move by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to centralize power...
Published by The Daily Star, 5/6/15 BEIRUT: ISIS militants advanced Thursday to the edge of the Syrian city of Hassakeh after intense fighting with regime troops, threatening to take their second provincial capital. The jihadis have now advanced to “500 meters away...
ARA News, 2/6/15, Urfa, Turkey ــ Militant fighters of the Islamic State (IS/ISIS) attacked Monday some 600 Kurdish citizen stranded at the Turkish borderline near Tel Abyad in Raqqa provimce, northeastern Syria, eyewitnesses reported. IS insurgents forced hundreds of...
