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Turkey ahead of elections: From promises of free internet for youth to political raki commercials

"Promise for you! 5 GB monthly internet will be free for young people," is a message on one of many billboards on the streets of Istanbul placed by opposition candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu ahead of the Turkish presidential elections scheduled for May 14. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan soon responded.  Via TV commercials under the slogan "Continue with the right steps" the...

In Turkey, continuing forest fires are destroying livelihoods

This story by Doga Celik and Arzu Geybullayeva originally appeared on Global Voices on August 2, 2021. It is republished under a Creative Commons Attribution-Only license.   Since July 28, a total of 125 forest fires have raged through 21 provinces of Turkey with 8 still raging as of August 2. The first fire was reported on July 28. So far, the death toll has reached...

The distance between the riots in Skopje and the mosque in Ohrid is 175 km and 100 light years

With the formulation "Riots in Skopje: Macedonians are causing riots because of the arrival of the Turkish President Erdogan", the Serbian portal "Dnevno.rs" unsuccessfully tried to attract more readers by using a bombastic title for their article. It was placed on a normal article that was actually a reprinted news article by the Serbian news agency Beta about the visit...

Ivanov attends the inauguration of Erdoğan

Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov and his wife Maja Ivanova attended the inauguration of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Ivanov's office said that he congratulated Erdoğan on the victory and success he achieved in the early presidential and parliamentary elections and wished him a successful presidency. Ivanov thanked Erdoğan for Turkey’s previous support and expressed confidence that the friendship and cooperation between...

Erdoğan -Zaev: Support for good neighborly policies and resolving the name dispute with Greece

At today’s meeting in Ankara, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, at today’s concluded that the two countries have the potential to promote economic cooperation by increased Turkish investment and through new initiatives by Macedonia. Government informs that Erdoğan has expressed support and encouragement for Turkish businessmen to invest in Macedonia. “President of Turkey Erdoğan...

Ivanov demands that the European Council engage and condemn the Platform

The Tirana platform is a document that represents an ultimatum and it has suspended the Agreement from Przino in which the European Union has invested all of its foreign–political credibility, said the letter that was sent by President Gjorge Ivanov to the members of the European Council, the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, the General Secretary of...

Ivanov – Erdoğan: Fight against terrorism and the migrant crisis were focus of meeting

President Gjorge Ivanov paid a working visit to Istanbul, Turkey today and met with the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan . The focus of the talks between the two presidents were bilateral relations and cooperation, with emphasis on issues related to security, the migrant crisis and economic relations. At the meeting they agreed to strengthen contacts and cooperation between the security...