16 May 2023; MEMO: As Turkiye heads to a presidential election runoff on 28 May, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed today that he will have a landslide victory, Anadolu has reported. "Now is the time to crown the success we achieved [in the election] on 14 May with a greater victory," Erdogan wrote on Twitter.
16 May 2023; MEMO: The US has congratulated the Turkish people on holding "peaceful" presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday, Anadolu has reported.
"The Biden administration lauds the Turkish people for expressing their desires at the ballot box in a peaceful way," said National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby on Monday. "President Joe Biden is looking forward to working with whoever the [presidential election] winner is, although that's not clear right now."
ANKARA, May 15. /TASS/: Turkish opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu may get some of the votes of the eliminated presidential candidate Sinan Ogan (5.2%), but it may not be enough to win in the second round, a source in the main opposition Republican People’s Party told TASS.
KHARTOUM, May 15 (NNN-SUNA) – At least 676 people have been killed, due to the clashes between the Sudanese Army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), according to a report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), yesterday.
“Clashes between the Sudan Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces continued for 30 consecutive days, especially in and around Khartoum, killing at least 676 people and injuring 5,576, OCHA said.
ISTANBUL, May 14 (Xinhua) -- An army of volunteers has been monitoring the voting process to prevent any misconduct in Türkiye's presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday.
According to a representative of Vote and Beyond, the most prominent NGO in the country for securing elections, nearly 100,000 volunteers are at the polls across Türkiye's 81 provinces.
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank on Monday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, the latest death in a spiral of violence that has rocked the region.
The Health Ministry said 22-year-old Saleh Sabra was killed after being shot in the chest in the flashpoint West Bank city of Nablus, a frequent site of Israeli operations.
BEIRUT (AP) — Syria on Monday called on Arab countries to invest in the war-torn nation, now again a member of the Arab League. The appeal from Syria’s economy and trade minister came during an economic conference in Saudi Arabia, ahead of a league summit in the kingdom.
The 22-member Arab League agreed earlier this month to reinstate Syria, ending a 12-year suspension and taking another step toward bringing Syrian President Bashar Assad, a long-time regional pariah, back into the fold.
Tehran (ISNA) - Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani has reacted to the reports regarding Iran’s move to free two French nationals.
Kanaani said, “In response to the requests of the French side at different levels and following the talks held including the negotiations between Catherine Colonna and Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the Foreign Ministers of France and Iran on Friday, the Judiciary of the Islamic Republic of Iran freed two French nationals, with one of the them having dual Irish-French nationality”.
Tehran (ISNA) – The secretary of Iran's High Council for Human Rights Kazem Gharibabadi said that the atrocities of the US against nations are unprecedented during the human history.
Kazem Gharibabadi declared, "In domestic arena, people should know that what crimes America has committed against us because its crimes have directly targeted our people. We should remind repeatedly this issue and the matter is nothing to do with our macro policies with the US. The one who commits crimes should be highlighted and we would go after with them".
14 May 2023; MEMO: Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has condemned the main opposition candidate's policy goals toward Syrian refugees as "inhuman" and "un-Islamic", days before the landmark presidential elections are set to proceed.
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