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Tunisia

Exit polls project Tunisian landslide win for independent Kais Saied

October 13, 2019 MEO Staff

Independent candidate Kais Saied won a landslide victory in Sunday’s presidential election in Tunisia, two exit polls projected, although no official results had yet been announced, reported Reuters. Saied, a retired law professor with conservative [ More … ]

Tunisia

Kais Saied and Nabil Karoui through to 2nd. round in Tunisia’s presidential election

September 15, 2019 MEO Staff

Kais Saied and Nabil Karoui, two anti-establishment candidates in Tunisia’s divisive presidential election said Sunday to have won through to a run-off, hours after polling closed in the country’s second free presidential poll since the [ More … ]

Analysis

Tunisia declares mourning period after the death of President Essebsi

July 27, 2019 Ahmed Rashed

Parliament Speaker Mohamed Ennaceur sworn in as interim president; country to hold presidential vote on September 15. The Tunisian government has declared seven days of mourning following the death of Beji Caid Essebsi, the country’s first democratically elected president, as [ More … ]

Netanyahu, Trump push for more sanctions against Iran
Israel Latest News

Postponed: Unveiling of Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ frozen as Israel heads to fresh polls

June 20, 2019 Ahmed Rashed

Touted by its architects as the ‘deal of the century’, US president Donald Trump’s plan for Palestine and Israel has had to again be kept hidden as Israel heads back to elections after a failure [ More … ]

Israel Latest News

Israel Heads to Elections after Coalition Talks Fail

May 29, 2019 MEO Staff

Israeli parliament votes to hold new elections after Netanyahu fails to form coalition         Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before voting in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament in Jerusalem, Wednesday, May 29, 2019. (AP Photo) Israeli Prime [ More … ]

Turkey Latest News

Turkey: Strong evidence points to rerun of Istanbul elections

April 15, 2019 MEO Staff

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) is getting ready to apply to the Supreme Election Council (YSK) with its legal right to extraordinary objection to re-hold the municipal elections that saw a large [ More … ]

Algeria

Algeria: Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigns after mass protests

April 3, 2019 Ahmed Rashed

Longtime president says he quit to let citizens ‘take Algeria to the better future they aspire to’. Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has resigned with immediate effect, according to state media, ceding power in the face of massive street [ More … ]

Algeria

Algerians protest against Bouteflika’s bid for fifth term

February 24, 2019 Ahmed Rashed

Thousands of people gathered across Algeria on Friday to protest President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s plans to run for a fifth term. Security forces in riot gear fired tear gas to block a march on to the presidential [ More … ]

Column

Venezuela today, Turkey tomorrow!

January 30, 2019 Ahmed Rashed

The democracy developed in the West, discourses such as the superiority of law, freedoms and human rights, are primarily discourse developed for Western societies. By: Yusuf Kaplan* What’s certain is that the West took democracy, [ More … ]

Column

Column: Erdogan’s past and future reforms

June 29, 2018 MEO Staff

By: Nagehan Alci* Turkey has entered a new period of five years with the presidential and parliamentary elections held on June 24. During this period, a new system will come into effect, in which the [ More … ]

Turkey Latest News

Erdoğan, AK Party Lead Turkish Elections

June 24, 2018 Ahmed Rashed

Erdoğan and the AK Party are heading for victory in the presidential and parliamentary elections, according to unofficial data Unofficial results from Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections show incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his [ More … ]

Turkey Latest News

Erdoğan Casts His Vote for Presidential, Parliamentary Elections

June 24, 2018 Ahmed Rashed

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan cast his vote on Sunday in Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections. Erdoğan voted at the Saffet Çebi Middle School in Istanbul’s Üsküdar at approximately 1:30 p.m. local time. He was accompanied [ More … ]

Turkey Latest News

Turkish Polls Going on Smoothly: Independent Observers

June 24, 2018 Ahmed Rashed

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said on Sunday that no discrepancies were reported during the elections so far. The delegation started its on-site observation in Lieutenant Kalmaz Primary School in capital [ More … ]

Column

Turkish Elections: Importance, Expectations & Implications

June 23, 2018 MEO Staff

Dr Said Elhaj* Millions of Turkish voters are heading to the polls on June 24 to take part in the early presidential and parliamentary elections which are viewed as the most important, sensitive and complicated [ More … ]

Column

Is This Dictatorship? Have You Ever Seen Such Democracy?

June 19, 2018 Ahmed Rashed

By: Yasin Aktay* As we rapidly head toward the June 24 elections, though the harsh criticisms made by presidential candidates about one another drop to a frustrating level at times, we can consider it from [ More … ]

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