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Voters in Turkey return to polls to elect next president
Voters in Turkey returned to the polls Sunday to decide whether the country’s longtime leader stretches his increasingly authoritarian rule into a third decade or is unseated by a challenger who has promised to restore a more democratic society.
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Nechirvan Barzani stresses federalism and rights for Kurdistan Region
The President of the Kurdistan Region, Nechirvan Barzani, renewed his commitment to preserving federalism and the constitutional rights of the Kurdistan Region.
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Turkey jets renew airstrikes in mount Matin
Turkish aircraft renewed their airstrikes on Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) positions in the Mount Matin range on Friday, following a four-day hiatus.
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KRG expresses opposition to changes in draft Iraq federal budget
Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan regional government said on Friday it opposed changes in the draft Iraqi federal budget that infringe on the rights of the Kurdish people.
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Kurdish Region loses $1.5bn since oil exports to Turkey stopped
The Kurdistan Regional Government in northern Iraq has lost more than $1.5 billion since oil exports to Turkey were stopped, according to a report published on Tuesday by the US financial website Zero Hedge.
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Saudi Arabia to invest $3bn in Iraq
According to Arab News, Muteb Al-Shathri, the Saudi-Iraq Investment Co.’s interim CEO, and his team based in Saudi Arabia will search for funding possibilities in a variety of sectors, including infrastructure, mining, agricultural, real estate development, and financial services.
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Turkey minority groups in quake-hit provinces face discrimination
Members of minority groups living in Turkey’s southern provinces that were hit by devastating earthquakes in early February have been exposed to discrimination based on their identity, according to a report by the Minority Rights Group International (MRG).
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Arab leaders react differently to Syria return to Arab League
Arab leaders gathered in the Saudi city of Jeddah on Friday for the annual Arab League summit. Many of them welcomed Syria’s participation, which resumed for the first time in a decade, but Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani notably did not attend the speech by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and left the summit beforehand, seemingly in protest.
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Bashar Assad visits Saudi Arabia for Arab summit
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad arrived in Saudi Arabia Thursday, state media said, to join an Arab League summit for the first time in more than a decade of war.
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Kilicdaroglu vows to send Syrian refugees home
Turkey’s opposition leader vowed Thursday to send millions of migrants back home in a strident message aimed at winning the support of an ultranationalist who helped push last weekend’s presidential vote to a runoff, Agence France-Presse reported.
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Kilicdaroglu faces uphill battle in Turkey’s runoff election
Turkey’s secular opposition leader may have succeeded in forcing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan into his first-ever runoff, but his chances of winning on May 28 are remote.
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Political killings on rise in Kurdistan Region?
The danger of political killings are on the rise in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Al-Monitor warned in a report about an assassination attempt against a member of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq’s parliament on Monday when he survived the attempt.
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Three Yazidi fighters killed in Turkish drone strike in Shingal
Three fighters linked to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were killed in a Turkish drone strike near Shingal, Kurdistan Region, on Tuesday, the Counterterrorism Service of Iraqi Kurdistan said in a statement.
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Turkey braces for momentous runoff after election race
Neither the state media count nor the one presented by the opposition avoids the possibility of Turkey holding another presidential vote in two weeks.
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Iraq ready to resume oil exports from Kurdistan Region
The Iraqi Oil Minister, Hayan Abdul-Ghani, stated that Iraq wants to resume oil exports from the Kurdistan region of Iraq to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, starting from Saturday, but it is waiting for Turkey’s approval, Reuters reported.
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Erdogan scored well ahead of Kilicdaroglu as Turkey voted
Short of an outright victory for Turkey’s longtime leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, it was the worst result the country’s opposition could have imagined.
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KDP and PUK decide to bury the hatchets under US pressure - Reuters
One of the dominant Kurdish parties in northern Iraq on Sunday ended a more than half-year boycott of regional government cabinet meetings with its main coalition partner, easing tensions between factions that fought a civil war in the 1990s.
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Both sides in Turkey elections claiming to have a lead
Parties of both current President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and main challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu claim to have an early lead - and the election could still be headed to a run-off if neither finishes with more than 50% of the vote.
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Numerous frauds reported in Turkey elections
During election day on May 14, there were many reports of voting fraud and obstruction of election observers across Turkey.
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Erdogan ahead in Turkey initial vote results
Preliminary results from Turkey's presidential election on Sunday showed Tayyip Erdogan ahead with 59.47% compared to opposition rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu with 34.79%, though pollsters expected the gap to narrow in the tight contest.
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Polls close in Turkey elections
Election polls have closed in Turkey where President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s 20-year leadership hung in the balance after a strong challenge from an opposition candidate.
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Ties between federal governments and Kurdistan Region are golden: Kurdish official
The head of the representative office of the Kurdistan Region in Baghdad called the relationship between Baghdad and Erbil as a golden relationship.
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US says it won't interfere in Turkey elections
The spokesman of the White House said the fate of Turkey will be determined by the people of the country, and that the United States does not want to comment on the country's election candidates.
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Iran to receive 1st batch of Russia-made SU-35 jets next week
Iran will reportedly receive the first batch of Russian SU-35 fighter jets next week.
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Turkey to decide Erdogan's future in knife-edge vote today
Turkey votes Sunday in a momentous election that could extend President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's 20-year grip on power or put the mostly Muslim nation on a more secular course.
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Ties with Turkey will continue, no matter who wins election: Iraqi FM
Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said he does not expect the outcome of the Turkish election to affect Iraq-Turkey ties.
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Kurds are poised to vote for a Kemalist — for the first Time
If you ask Kurds on the street whom they will vote for in the presidential elections, many will answer Demirtas. They are referring to Selahattin Demirtas, the former co-leader of the leftist Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), which is firmly rooted in the Kurdish political movement in Turkey.
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Foreign oil companies warn Kurdistan Region of Iraq over oil export
Foreign oil companies have warned the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq that they are ready to fully operate in this region only if oil exports are resumed and salary payment problems are resolved.
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Kurdistan Region to resume oil exports on Saturday
Iraq's oil minister said Turkish authorities have been informed that the export of Kurdistan Region oil through the port of Ceyhan will resume on Saturday.
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Turkish opposition accuses Russia of election interference ahead of vote day
Turkey’s leading opposition candidate has accused Russia of election interference days before the country’s most consequential vote in a generation.