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On the evening of 15 May, a young woman, Kübra Ergin, committed suicide at Marmaray Yenikapı station in Istanbul. Ergin, 20 years old, who committed suicide by jumping on the tracks at the Yenikapı Marmaray Station, left a letter behind…

Turkey failed to meet basic principles for democratic elections The joint observation mission of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) and the Parliamentary Assembly…

Following the announcement of the election results, the opposition parties began to object intensively after it was revealed that votes had been stolen in many provinces. Many documents of fraud and irregularities were posted on social…

The Green Left Party (YSP) gained an additional deputy in Urfa after the party objected to the transfer of YSP votes to the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) found that the votes of the Green Left Party…

Mehmet Rüştü Tiryaki, the Election Monitoring Coordination Center Spokesperson and Supreme Election Council (YSK) representative of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) held a press conference regarding the vote counting process. Tiryaki…

The President of the Supreme Election Council (YSK), Ahmet Yener, announced that the presidential election has gone to the second round. With the official announcement of the second round of the presidential election, the election calendar…

Whilst Turkey's presidential election will head to a second round as no candidate received more than 50 percent of the vote, the results of the parliamentary election have been confirmed. The Green Left Party (YSP), which contested the…

On May 15, the results of the presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey held on May 14 were announced. The Supreme Election Board (YSK) announced on Monday morning that data entry is ongoing and that according to the latest counts,…

Elections have begun in Turkey and reports of vote rigging, discrepancies and violence are mounting. Several cases were reported from the city of Sanliurfa, where several ballot papers were stamped en masse by one person for the ruling…

A number of international and Western media outlets have shed the light on the Turkish parliamentary and presidential elections which will take place on May 14, 2023, amidst the existing consensus between most of them that Turkish President…