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DAILY NEWS: Syrian Foreign Minister rejects normalisation with Turkey // Iran: Jina Amini's tomb vandalised as uprisings reignite over executions // Makhmour Refugee Camp under siege for third day // plus more...

Daily News: Iran executes three protesters, report on Newroz killings in Syria shows links to Turkish-back faction, border gate between Iraq and Syria remains closed for days, fans of Turkish football club Fenerbahçe protest election of extremist MPs.

Countless ballot boxes from all over Turkey have been misrepresented in the official records, announced the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) on Wednesday. Dozens of shredded national identity cards were discovered in a rubbish bin near an Istanbul polling station on Tuesday, adding to increasing allegations of wide-spread electoral irregularities. Kurdish politician Meral Danış Beşt...

Daily News: Turkish elections: Threats to voting abroad window in countries that secured an opposition lead in first round, HDP raise concerns over vote count manipulations in Kurdish- majority provinces, plus more!

DAILY NEWS: Turkey's presidential elections go to run-off // Green Left, HDP discuss election results // Alleged manipulations mar election night // Balcony speech: Erdoğan targets jailed Kurdish politician Demirtaş //

DAILY NEWS: Anti- Erdoğan vote boosted as candidate withdraws, European Left joins poll monitoring efforts to protect Turkey's democracy, Kurdish politician abducted for leverage in Erdoğan's campaign, and more.

Top US military commander General Joseph Votel explained how Turkish military operations against Kurdish regions of northern Syria "significantly affected" his country's anti-ISIS efforts. Iranian teachers held nationwide protests on Tuesday to demand better working conditions and to protest both against the recent imprisonment of colleagues and against a series of suspected poison attacks affecti...

Turkey's opposition leader and main rival to President Erdoğan, Kılıçdaroğlu, for the first time has answered questions about the PKK’s stance in the upcoming 14 May elections. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Council on Monday welcomed the recent decision of the Arab League to readmit the Syrian government in Damascus to the regional bloc. The Turkish government could use troops as voters to inf...

Daily News: Opposition addresses supporters after mob attacks rally in Turkey // Fight breaks out at Netherlands polling station set up for expat Turks, plus more!

Turkish Presidential Spokesman İbrahim Kalın told German newspaper Die Zeit on Friday that "We will respect whatever the result is,” in response to concerns that the election results could have violent consequences. The lawyers of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan have called for an immediate end to Öcalan’s 25-month-long incommunicado state, and said that they objected to their client being the subject...

Daily news: Turkey jails more Kurdish journalists // World Press Freedom Index 2023: Turkey ranks in worst 20 // Sweden’s new anti-terror bill condemned as anti-Kurdish // plus more!

Daily News: Pro-Kurdish party targeted in Istanbul raid, 17 arrests // 12 days to polls: Kurdish Alliance declares support for Kılıçdaroğlu // Syrian-Kurdish forces say neutralised ISIS chief was under Turkish protection, plus more...

Listen Daily News: Turkey claims killing of ISIS chief // Rallies attacked 13 days before Turkey's polls // Syrians in Sudan call on Kurdish administration for help // Iranian workers continue strikes //

Daily News: Cypriot court orders extradition of Kurdish man to Germany, detentions against Kurds continue in Turkey, HDP announces support for Kılıçdaroğlu, HRW accuse Turkish border guards of rights violations against Syrian refugees.

Daily News // Ex-pats must mobilise to vote in Turkey's critical May elections, says Kurdish KCDK-E // German justice minister warns against hate speech in Turkish election campaigns abroad // plus more...

Daily News: Turkey's attacks against NE Syria intensify; protests against and international condemnation of mass arrests in crackdown on Kurds; government denies meeting with PKK leader.

Daily News: Mass detentions in Kurdish-majority regions ahead of Turkey's critical elections see over 150 arrested, with more expected. The HDP, lawyers, and civil society take to the streets to protest Tuesday's raids, plus more news..

Listen the Daily News: Support for a Syrian peace initiative grows, Syria- Turkey reconciliation talks continue in Moscow, 108th anniversary of Armenian Genocide sees calls for Turkey recognition, plus more.

Severe storms on Thursday blew the roofs off of buildings damaged in the February earthquake in Turkey’s southern Kahramanmaraş province, resulting in at least one confirmed fatality and 50 injuries. Muslims in Turkey and Syria are observing Eid al-Fitr, the holiday marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan, under the shadow of the devastating February earthquakes. Turkey’s Green Left Party has...

Daily News: PKK's Duran Kalkan says ceasefire can't be one-sided, PKK is still committed to 2015 declaration of intent, says Karayılan, Turkish Justice Ministry has defended Öcalan's isolation conditions, actress Hazal Kaya faces jail for insulting convicted rapist.

Co-chair of the pro-Kurdish HDP, Mithat Sancar called on voters to be vigilant against the government’s “hostile mentality” and said that in contrast the pro-Kurdish HDP insists on democratic politic. A Kurdish citizen of Turkey who migrated to the Kurdistan Region of Iraq because he was being prosecuted for political offences in Turkey was killed in an armed attack in Duhok on Monday evening. Jou...

Listen our Daily News as opposition presidential candidate Kılıçdaroğlu says Turkey's election is "a choice between democracy and dictatorship", Erdoğan is accused of hypocrisy in the PKK smear campaign, plus more!

Listen the Daily News: Green Left campaigns across Turkey with pro-Kurdish HDP, US raid targets ISIS leader on Syria-Turkey border, US raid targets ISIS leader on Syria- Turkey border, plus more!

Daily News: Turkish President makes U-turn on construction Amnesty, Diyarbakır (Amed) journalists in Turkey sentenced to 15 years in prison, expert warns not to "count Erdoğan out" in elections, plus more!

Daily News: Turkey's Foreign Minister calls NE Syria's anti-ISIS units "terrorist groups" and claims that the PKK is in control of Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan. 100 HDP members are in court again at 24th hearing of Kobane trial, plus more!