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İSTANBUL As of 17.00, the elections have been ended by the YSK, and the results cannot be made without lifting the publication ban. After the March 31 Local Administrations General Elections, the Supreme Election Board (YSK) decided to cancel the votes on May 6. In the election, AKP candidate Binali...

It has been reported that the staff working at polling stations are all wearing orange, AKP merchandise pens in an attempt to manipulate the votes of the people. The members of staff wearing the pens have created tension among the voters, creating a biased environment. After realising that the elections...

İSTANBUL The voting process began at 08:00 on June 23, in Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality for the renewed election. With the start of the voting process, the fascist Akp-Mhp bloc started election tricks. During the elections, it was disclosed that "the wrong seal was hit on 50 envelopes in Beykoz; at...

Today's elections will be held to determine the Mayor of Istanbul. The third, fourth and other candidates will not affect the elections so much; these elections are between two powers. Firstly CHP Chair Ekrem Imamoglu, and secondly AKP/MHP Chair Binali Yildirim.   Who will win the elections? Attention is now directed...

Coming up to the Istanbul elections, the helpless pleads of the AKP government have been witnessed clearly through every speech and every action. These examples vary from establishing a workers rights approach, for the first time in 17 years. Throughout these 17 years, Turkeys economy has only reduced while unemployment...

İSTANBUL The Etkin news agency (ETHA) editor Deniz Bakır, whose office was raided by the fascist Turkish state on June 15, spoke to our Agency. Deniz explains that the people who demand freedom; the poor, the Kurds, the Alevis, women, labourers, and the media organs who represent this fraction, are...

Co-chairs of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) shared their views and assessments following the statement made by Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan through his lawyers, earlier today. The full text of the statement by HDP Co-chairs Pervin Buldan and Sezai Temelli is as follows; 1. HDP is a symbol of...

Co-chairs of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) shared their views and determinations following the statement made by the People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan through his lawyers earlier today. The statement by HDP Co-chairs Pervin Buldan and Sezai Temelli put emphasis on the “third-route” route and said that the remarks of the...

CENTRAL NEWS Nechirvan Barzani, the newly elected Kurdistan Regional Government president, is expected to meet today with fascist Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Nechirvan Barzani, who will hold his first meeting with fascist Erdogan after he became President, visited Baghdad yesterday and met with Iraqi President Berhem Saleh and Iraqi Prime Minister...

Asrın Law Office published a written statement about the meeting they had with their client, Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan on Imralı on June 18. Full text of the statement reads as follows;   “We had a lawyer meeting with our client Mr. Abdullah Öcalan in Imralı Island Prison on...