Reuters
Baku/28.05.23/Turan: Recep Tayyip Erdogan has secured another five-year presidential term after a unique second round of elections. Erdogan was the clear winner, gaining 52.1% of the vote, while his rival, the candidate from the opposition alliance Kemal Kilicdaroglu, received 47.9%.
Erdogan is already receiving congratulations from foreign leaders. President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev was among the first to congratulate him.-0--
In World
-
A Russian drone attack on a residential block killed nine people including three elderly couples in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy, officials said on Thursday.
-
Panama's President Jose Raul Mulino on Thursday ruled out negotiations with the United States over ownership of the Panama Canal as he prepares to host Donald Trump's Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
-
The skies on Wednesday night were clear. The pilots were in communication with air traffic control, and officials said American Eagle Flight 5342 was on a standard descent to the runway in the busy airspace above the nation’s capital. Yet somehow, the passenger jet and an Army helicopter collided midair, bursting into flames and plunging into the Potomac River in the first major fatal commercial plane crash in the United States in 16 years.
-
Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani visited Damascus on Thursday and met newly declared transitional President Ahmed al-Sharaa, in the first visit by a head of state to the Syrian capital since Bashar al-Assad was toppled on Dec. 8.
Leave a review