In the first round of the Turkish presidential elections held on May 14, neither candidate crossed the 50-percent mark for an outright win, triggering an unprecedented run-off vote. On Sunday, 28 May, at 8:00 am. [ More … ]
About 500,000 million Turkish nationals abroad have cast their votes in the country’s foreign missions and customs gates in the second round of the country’s presidential election scheduled for May 28 at home, reported Anadolu [ More … ]
European Parliament’s (EP) vote today could stop the export of dangerous surveillance equipment to rights-abusing governments, according to a coalition of international NGOs. The vote, on European Union’s (EU) export control regime for dual-use items, [ More … ]
The US faces an embarrassing loss in the United Nations General Assembly Thursday despite comments by President Donald Trump suggesting countries that vote against the US could face repercussions. Egypt called for a vote at [ More … ]
Former Qatari culture minister Hamad Bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari came out ahead in Monday’s first-round vote for the new chief of UN cultural agency UNESCO. The ongoing feud between Qatar and Egypt took on global dimensions [ More … ]
Iraqi Ambassador to Russia Haidar Mansour Hadi said that Baghdad rejects the referendum in Kurdistan. Iraqi Delegate Praises Russia’s Position on Kurdistan’s Independence Referendum Baghdad rejects the referendum in Kurdistan, it is illegal from the UN viewpoint, [ More … ]
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) voted to inscribe Hebron’s Old City and Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque in the occupied West Bank on the World Heritage in Danger list on Friday, despite diplomatic [ More … ]
A total of 955,426 voters of the national community abroad are called to go voting as from Saturday to elect their representatives at the People’s National Assembly, as part of the legislative elections of 4 [ More … ]
Presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin says referendum Yes votes in Kurdish southeast outstripped usual AK Party voting The Turkish government received increased support from predominantly Kurdish parts of the country in Sunday’s referendum, a presidential spokesman [ More … ]
US President Donald Trump called Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday, to congratulate him on his victory in Turkey’s historic referendum. Donald Trump called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday, to congratulate him on [ More … ]
Polling stations for Turkey’s groundbreaking referendum opened Sunday, with over 55 million Turkish citizens expected to vote on constitutional reforms, including a presidential system. Turkish citizens are casting their ballots at 167,000 polling stations nationwide. [ More … ]
A vote on a bill seeking to annex the occupied West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim that was set to be voted on Sunday could be postponed, at the request of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin [ More … ]
Egypt’s vote for a Russian draft U.N. Security Council resolution, calling for a ceasefire in the Syrian city of Aleppo but ignoring devastating bombing of the embattled city of Aleppo, has sparked an online backlash and wide condemnations. [ More … ]
A delegation from Tobruk’s House of Representatives (HoR) arrived in Cairo on a private plane from Tunisia on Tuesday, according to al-Ahram, a state-run newspaper. The delegation includes pro-political agreement members in the (HoR) and [ More … ]
Egypt under al-Sisi reign enhances the relations with Israel not only on the security level but also on the diplomatic level. According to a cable sent to several Israeli embassies whose contents reached Haartez, the [ More … ]
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