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The Latest Opinion Polls Announced by KONDA

Bianet :: English

Three days to the election, AKP takes 41%, CHP 27.8%, MHP 14.8% and HDP takes 12.6% of the votes according to KONDA. As a result, AKP has 261, CHP 145, MHP 76 and HDP has 68 deputies.

Turkey at a crossroads as Erdoğan bulldozes his way to lasting legacy

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Ian Traynor and Constanze Letsch in Istanbul

President has turned election into one-man drive to rewrite the constitution, abolish parliamentarianism and install a quasi-dictatorship

The rolling hills by the Black Sea, 90 minutes north-west of Istanbul, have long been prized for their dense forest and pristine lakes. Now the water buffalo that graced this landscape and supplied the city with much of its dairy produce are vanishing from what Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the president of Turkey, has turned into one of the world’s biggest building sites.

EKİN KARACA IN RİZE: “Without Erdoğan, AKP Is Nothing in Rize”

Bianet :: English

Deputy candidates from AKP and CHP think great interest for AKP in rise results from “admiration for Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.”

Man questions Turkish President’s rally in Iğdır, spends night in jail

A man living in the eastern Turkish province of Iğdır has spent the night in jail after publically questioning a rally held by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Final push ahead of Turkey poll

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Political campaigners in Turkey are making their final push for support ahead of Sunday’s general election.

Nationalist and conservative electorate deserting the AKP

The political coalition that came under the umbrella of the AKP is dissolving, according to a candidate from the opposition. “After social democrats and liberals, it is the turn of the nationalist and conservatives to desert the AKP,” says Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu.

Turkish flags at HDP election rally

Turkish parties mobilized millions of people to their election rallies over the weekend as the country enters the last week ahead of the critical June 7 parliamentary elections.

Turkish Deputy PM critical of president’s interference in row over top cleric’s official car

Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç has overtly criticized President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s stance regarding a recent controversy over the allocation of a luxury car to Turkey’s top cleric

Erdoğan slams female protesters for turning their back on him

A group of women in eastern Turkey turned their backs on Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s campaign bus in protest, infuriating the increasingly irascible Turkish president on June 1

AKP’s Kurdish Quran translation ‘full of errors’

The Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) Kurdish Quran translation was printed hastily despite numerous errors in an effort to garner popular support ahead of the June 7 elections, according to theologian and Kurdologist Kadri Yıldırım, who is also an MP candidate from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP).

‘Did you clean these toilet seats?’ Erdoğan asks main opposition leader

The quarrel between the Turkish president and the main opposition leader over golden toilet seats has plumbed new depths, after Recep Tayyip Erdoğan questioned how his political rival knew about the toilets of the presidential palace

Turkey’s democratic deficit

open Democracy News Analysis – by Emre Caliskan and Simon A. Waldman

The younger generation is seeing their political awakening in a highly divided Turkey and being forced to take sides in a system where democracy and its institutions are the battleground.

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