Ahmed Tantawi has recently declared that several of his friends disappeared on the way to his office, the latest instance of the regime targeting the prospective presidential candidate’s supporters Former Karama (Dignity) Party head Ahmed [ More … ]
In the first round of the Turkish presidential elections held on May 14, neither candidate crossed the 50-percent mark for an outright win, triggering an unprecedented run-off vote. On Sunday, 28 May, at 8:00 am. [ More … ]
About 500,000 million Turkish nationals abroad have cast their votes in the country’s foreign missions and customs gates in the second round of the country’s presidential election scheduled for May 28 at home, reported Anadolu [ More … ]
Turkey’s Supreme Election Council makes its final announcement Monday on election results, with all ballot boxes across Turkey opened, giving more than 49% of the vote to incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan The Turkish Supreme [ More … ]
One day after launch of the ‘national dialogue’, the Egyptian authorities arrested the uncles of opposition politician Ahmed Tantawi, who intends to run for presidency against Sisi next year. Egypt on Wednesday launched its so-called ‘national dialogue’ -that [ More … ]
Egyptian politician and head of the Egyptian Reform and Development Party says he expects Egypt’s Sisi to announce he will not run for presidency once again in the in Mid-2024 presidential elections Head of the [ More … ]
Egyptian publisher Hisham Qassem on Tuesday revealed that the Egyptian authorities have replaced the Airbus presidential plane, which entered service 28 years ago, with a new Boeing 747-8i, which was purchased in 2021. Qassem also [ More … ]
Under Sisi’s iron fist, only one candidate is allowed to run, a FP report says If there was any doubt that Egypt’s upcoming presidential election will be neither free nor fair, the arrest of former [ More … ]
By: Yasin Aktay* The proposal for the Constitution change, which will bring the most radical change in Turkey’s administration system to date, will start to be discussed in the Parliamentary General Assembly as of today. During [ More … ]
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