Turkey: Erdogan trying to avoid runoff
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could be forced into a runoff if he fails to win an outright majority in Sunday’s presidential election.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could be forced into a runoff if he fails to win an outright majority in Sunday’s presidential election.
AEK celebrated on Sunday its 13th league title, as its easy victory over Volos sealed its triumph in the 2022-23 Super League championship, while Lamia snatched a late equalizer to send Ionikos to the second division.
Up-and-coming Polish director Lukasz Twarkowski is making his Greek debut at Athens’ Onassis Cultural Center with a theater-video art-film spectacle inspired by the notorious case of a fake Mark Rothko painting.
I sometimes think how much Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has changed through the years. When I first met him, 20 years ago, I felt that I had a strong “political animal” in front of me.
Election polls closed Sunday in Turkey, where President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s 20-year leadership of the NATO member country grappling with economic turmoil and the erosion of democratic checks-and-balances hung in the balance
On the final stretch to the May 21 election, the two largest parties – ruling conservative New Democracy and leftist opposition SYRIZA – are concerned about the gap between them and the votes of the smaller parties vying to reach the magical 3% threshold that will allow them to be represented in Parliament.
Greek officials are closely watching the Turkish presidential and parliamentary elections, but seem resigned to the fact that the neighboring country’s policy includes expansionist claims in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean and the questioning of Greece’s sovereignty over many of its Aegean islands, as well as the islands’ themselves possessing a continental shelf.
A student works the loom at a Special Vocational Training School in the town of Kilkis in northern Greece, in a photograph released on Saturday.
Israeli musician and composer Kutiman is bringing his full band to the stage of the French Institute in Athens for a show that is part of the municipality’s Athens City Festival.