Protesters near Istanbul’s main police headquarters on Wednesday said the detention of President Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival and the city’s mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was a blow to Turkish democracy.
Germany sees the detention of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival as “a serious setback,” a position that will be communicated in the appropriate manner with Berlin’s Turkish partners, said a foreign ministry spokesperson.
Turkish main opposition leader said President Tayyip Erdogan had strayed from democracy speaking after the detention of Ekrem Imamoglu, Istanbul’s mayor and Erdogan’s main political rival.
Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul and a popular figure, had basked in the glow of what he often jokingly dubbed his political miracle — the only person to have beaten Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party in not one, but three local elections.
Serbia’s parliament formally accepted the resignation of the Prime Minister Milos Vucevic on Wednesday, triggering a 30-day deadline for the formation of a new government or the calling of a snap election.
The 144th Session of the International Olympic Committee was launched open on Tuesday at Ancient Olympia.
Nestled amidst the verdant landscapes north of Athens, the former royal estate of Tatoi is undergoing a meticulous restoration, breathing new life into its historic structures.
The president of the Tempe Victims’ Association, Maria Karystianou, sent a legal notice on Wednesday to the president of the Parliament’s preliminary investigative committee into the 2023 Tempe rail disaster, Panagiotis Kappatos.
Turkey’s justice minister said on Wednesday that linking President Tayyip Erdogan to ongoing legal moves including the detention of Ekrem Imamoglu, Istanbul’s mayor and Erdogan’s main political rival, amounted to overstepping and insolence.
The slow-burn race for the most powerful job in world sport roared into life on Wednesday, set against the dazzling backdrop of the Ionian Sea, where the seven contenders for the International Olympic Committee presidency made their final moves ahead of a vote that will shape the sporting landscape for the next decade.