The reasons behind annulment of Istanbul election : AK Party refused to accept elections results by highlighting irregularities:
Editor Express Daily May 7, 2020 0 COMMENTSShare This TURKEY (Express Daily) – The High Election Board (YSK) decided to re-run the mayoral election in Istanbul because of unsigned result documents and some ballot box officials not being civil servants, the ruling AK Party’s representative to the board said on Monday. Recep Ozel, who had first announced the decision to annul and […]
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Turkey Re-elections: Invoked anger among victorious opposition parties
Editor Express Daily May 7, 2020 0 COMMENTSShare This Government announced re-elections in local government elections has been condemned by electoral body. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party had claimed there were “irregularities and corruption” behind the opposition CHP’s slim win. But CHP’s Ekrem Imamoglu, who was confirmed as Istanbul’s mayor in April, called the decision “treacherous”. The vote, which will be […]
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Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo:Two Reuters journalists are free now: Two journalists associated with a news agency Reuters were jailed for reporting Rohingya issue are free now.
Editor Express Daily May 7, 2020 0 COMMENTSShare This Two Journalists namely Wa Lone, and Kyaw Soe Oo, released now after a presidential amnesty. They spent more than 500 days in prison on the outskirts of Yangon. They had been convicted under the Official Secrets Act and sentenced to seven years in jail last September. Their jailing was seen as an assault […]
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