Bruised and fractured by Tayyip Erdogan’s victory in 2023 general elections, Turkey’s opposition aims to land a blow in Sunday’s local polls, with the future of its biggest hope, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, tied to the outcome.
Bruised and fractured by Tayyip Erdogan’s victory in 2023 general elections, Turkey’s opposition aims to land a blow in Sunday’s local polls, with the future of its biggest hope, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, tied to the outcome.
Many of Turkey’s Kurds are set to put aside party loyalty and back Tayyip Erdogan’s major rival in Istanbul on Sunday, knocking the president’s hopes of winning back the city he once ran, according to pollsters.
A New Democracy MEP who earlier this month said she would not be contesting in the upcoming European Parliament elections following allegations that she violated data protection regulations by sending a mass email to Greek voters living overseas has said that she received the email addresses from a party colleague in late January 2024.
On Sunday, millions of voters in Turkey head to the polls to elect mayors and administrators in local elections which will gauge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s popularity as his ruling party tries to win back key cities it lost five years ago.
On numerous occasions Greece’s main political parties have expressed their intention to send their “best and brightest” as their representatives to the European Parliament.
Nasos Balerbas, secretary-general of the Interior Ministry, will replace in the coming days another ministry official with a similar title, who resigned over a data breach scandal in which emails were sent to diaspora voters by a Conservative European Parliamentarian, Kathimerini understands.
With Europeans set to elect a new EU Parliament in June, the bloc needs to focus on defense cooperation, boosting its competitiveness against top global players and ensuring its food security, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said.
The European Union on Monday said the Russian election has taken place in a highly restricted environment “exacerbated by Russia’s illegal war of aggression against Ukraine”.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan is playing all his cards in his effort to retake Istanbul in the municipal elections of March 31.
Ayla Jean Yackley, an Istanbul-based journalist covering Turkey with stories in The Financial Times, Politico, and other major outlets, joins Thanos Davelis to look at why we should be paying attention to Turkey’s upcoming elections, which could be critical for the country’s politics – from the ruling party to the opposition.
Two conservative officials resigned and one was ousted on Friday amid a scandal involving the leak of an unspecified number of email addresses of Greek voters residing abroad.
The storm raised by a conservative Eurodeputy’s emailing Greeks resident abroad, who will be able to vote by mail for the first time in June’s European Parliament elections, is a reminder that lists of names, with addresses, phone numbers and emails, are in the hands of every political candidate.
Before email and messaging, we had regular mail and envelopes, which candidates for the national or European Parliament would send off to voters, only so they could form huge piles in the entrances to our apartment buildings.
In an interview with Kathimerini, SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis declares that he is ready to sit at the same table with other progressive parties, provided they respect his party’s role as the main opposition.
The Athens Prosecutor’s Office got involved in the privacy-breach investigation of which European People’s Party MEP and ruling New Democracy official Anna-Michelle Assimakopoulou has been accused of.
The issue of personal data and how easily it can be leaked has come to the fore again with a conservative MEP allegedly breaking the law.