In February’s earthquakes in southeast Turkey, many voters lost their homes, valuables, and loved ones. However, they turned out to cast their ballots on Sunday in what observers believe may be the country’s most important elections in decades.
The opposition and human rights observers are concerned about a surge of mass arrests that have been taking place in Turkey’s largely Kurdish area ahead of the elections on May 14.
International rights groups are condemning a crackdown on independent media that has opposed the incumbent president’s control of the mainstream media as Turkey gets closer to its hotly contested presidential elections in May.
Millions of survivors are still living in tents more than two months after the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, which claimed more than 50,000 lives. There is little hope that they will be able to return home any time soon.
With food costs in Turkey skyrocketing, the Islamic holy month of Ramadan provides some relief by providing free meals to break the day of fasting. The biggest danger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s reelection campaign, according to analysts, is inflation.
In the May elections, a man who has been dubbed the Turkish “Gandhi” by many will provide what observers say is Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s biggest electoral challenge.
Religious minorities who live in the region are among the hundreds of thousands of people affected by the earthquake in Turkey in early February.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is up for reelection despite growing anger with his government’s handling of the recent massive earthquakes that hit Turkey.
Syrians who killed in the earthquake in Turkey are having their bodies returned home to be buried, which is overcrowding the neighborhood cemeteries. To escape the civil violence, millions of Syrians travelled to Turkey.
Northwestern Syrian villages are facing two disasters. After being severely damaged by a powerful earthquake on Monday, the area was later flooded as a result of the collapse of local levees.