Turkish Vote Result Seen as Opportunity for E.U. by By JUDY DEMPSEY Fresh from a resounding electoral victory, the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan presents the European Union with a strategic partner who could play an even greater role in the region. Erdoğan-Assad and Angelina Jolie by HDN Right after a clear election victory, Turkish … Read more
87% of the votes have been counted in Turkey. AKP: 50.8%, CHP: 25.5%, MHP: 13.3%, Independents: 6.1% let’s just if AKP can get 330 seats in order to make the new constitution alone. Istanbuls real Kurds vote BDP from Journalist in Turkey, background articles, news and weblog about by Fréderike Geerdink ISTANBUL ? Metin (47) … Read more
Check out many election day related photos here. There were rumors of election violations especially in Kurdish cities and in Ankara… We have tried to list them as many as possible at our election monitoring project. Kurdish led Left-bloc Independents are expected to win more than 20 seats, that is good news. Votes in Eastern … Read more
Bu seçimde birçok yenilik ve ilklerin yaşanacağı çok zayılıp çizilmişti… İşte benim gözlemlediğim aksaklıklar.. Neler olacaktı neler oldu… KABİNLER: Seçimlerde kullanılacak oy verme kabinleri; eni 120, boyu 120, yüksekliği 180 cm, portatif, hafif metal profil üzerinde, bir tarafı açılıp kapanabilir ve içini göstermeyen koyu renk dayanıklı sentetik kumaşla kaplı, kolay taşınabilir ve katlanabilir olacak şekilde yapılacak. Ben ilkokulda … Read more
According to a Pew survey, Turks are mostly satisfied with the state of affairs in Turkey… All we hear is just some noise, everything is fine, it seems:) Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan speaks to media after casting his vote at a polling station in Istanbul June 12, 2011. Turks began voting in an election … Read more
Just had breakfast with the family. My parents already voted. Now I and my sister is to leave home to vote. Then I intend to start special election coverage here:) Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister and the leader of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), throws flowers to his supporters during an election rally in … Read more
p.s. This post to be updated with new info… Of course, first of all our own project (!) See details here. Secim Takip Project site here. Al Jazeera started special coverage on Turkey elections. here. Google has a special page to present Election related search information. Here. *********** In cooperation with Dipnot.TV, Tivibu will … Read more
And a stats of Turkish voters in previous elections can be found in as a graph in this article in Turkish… Turkish Elections 2011: The Blog View by Yigal Schleifer With the Turkish elections set for Sunday, I’ve asked Aengus Collins, the man behind the very intelligent and informative “Istanbul Notes” blog to answer some … Read more
Around one million citizens may have attended AKP’s Istanbul election rally. Here are some photos from Hürriyet. Boats carrying supporters of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) sail through the Bosphorus in Istanbul June 4, 2011. Turkey will hold parliamentary elections on June 12. REUTERS/Murad Sezer Turkish PM targets Economist magazine, journalist Nuray Mert … Read more
Bugün Haberturk ve Akşam gazetelerinin websitelerinde haber olduk. Akşam: Adaylar dikkat! vatandaş takipte Habertürk: 7/ 24 Seçim Takip! Daha önceki projeyle ilgili haberler: Posta, Habervesaire ve Hürriyet Daily News de çıktı… YÜKSEK LİSANS ÖĞRENCİLERİNDEN SEÇİM TAKİP PROJESİ İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi?nde Öğrenim gören bir grup yüksek lisans öğrencisi, 12 Haziran seçimleri öncesi internet üzerinden interaktif … Read more
The Economist has been AKP friendly for most of the time, this comes as a blow to AKP leadership.. Well in order to have more headcounts, they have lost so many friends that they will eventually regret… The Turkish election: Erdogan’s last hurrah (possibly) | The Economist Erdogan’s last hurrah (possibly) The election on June … Read more
Pls do check our project, first of all. Google offers election related search stats here. Turkey’s Kurds await political leaders’ messages in Diyarbakır by DİYARBAKIR – Hürriyet Daily News As tension flares up ahead of the June polls, pro-Kurdish groups are focusing their attention on the messages key politicians will deliver this week in Diyarbakır. … Read more
Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan (R) and Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), shake hands during the 66th General Assembly of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB), in Ankara May 16, 2011. REUTERS/Umit Bektas Kılıçdaroğlu?s autonomy proposal by FATMA DİŞLİ ZIBAK Main opposition Republican People?s Party … Read more
Web project to monitor Turkish election campaign via independent reports Habervesaire was the first to cover (in Turkish), now comes a major media outlet… Basic Information about the project here.
Increasingly ugly election process we have. It seems that some circles within the Establishment decided to break down MHP (Nationalist Action Party) and sex tapes of MHP officials continue to be released. Until now 10 officials resigned after the tapes… The photo above shows the last 5 that resigned this morning… More news in Turkish … Read more