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By Hamdi Celikbas

ANKARA - Turkey’s Supreme Election Board has released an unofficial candidates list for the June 24 presidential elections.According to the list -- which can be objected to until May 11 -- six candidates will run for the presidency in Turkey: Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Muharrem Ince, Meral Aksener, Selahattin Demirtas, Temel Karamollaoglu and Dogu Perincek.This April, parliament passed a bill for early elections on June 24, cementing Turkey’s move to a presidential system.In an April 2017 referendum, Turkish voters approved the switch from a

parliamentary system to a presidential one.The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party are set to enter the June 24 parliamentary and presidential polls as an election alliance.The MHP-AK Party alliance is supporting Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is seeking his second term as president.Erdogan has served as president since 2014 -- Turkey’s first popularly elected president. Before that, he served as prime minister from 2003 to 2014.Should he win the June election, Erdogan would be Turkey’s first leader under the presidential system, doing away with the prime minister’s post,

among other changes.Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has nominated Muharrem Ince as its presidential candidate for the June 24 early elections.In a rally in the capital Ankara, CHP leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu formally announced the CHP’s choice of Ince as their presidential hopeful.The opposition IYI (Good) Party has circulated a petition to make party leader Meral Aksener their candidate in the June 24 presidential elections.Aksener surpassed 100,000 signatures to be a presidential candidate in the upcoming elections.On April 22, fifteen deputies from Turkey’s main opposition party...

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Erdogan, Ince, Aksener, Demirtas, Karamollaoglu and Perincek are candidates, according to Supreme Election Board

Six candidates to run for presidency

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Turkey praised for care given to Syrian refugees

‘Israel has hijacked the word Judaism’

By Muhammad Mussa

LONDON - Turkey has been providing and continues to provide the best care and protection to more than 3 million Syrian refugees in the country, attendees of a UK parliamentary event heard Wednesday. The event, held by the Yunus Emre Institute, looked at the work done by the Turkish government and Turkish and international NGOs in accepting Syrian refugees

and integrating them into Turkish society. The session was hosted by Matthew Saltmarsh, a senior external relations officer at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Abby Dwommoh, a public information officer and spokeswoman for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and Ibrahim Vurgun Kavlak, general coordinator at the Association for Solidarity with Asylum...

By Ahmet Gurhan Kartal

LONDON - The perpetrators of one of the worst human tragedies of the world -- as atrocities in Myanmar targeting Rohingya Muslims are often described as genocide -- will be brought to justice, speakers at a panel launching a new campaign group said Wednesday.The Justice for Rohingya Minority (JFRM) is a diverse group of lawyers, jurists, academics, campaigners, professionals, and community leaders joining forces in a legal campaign for the prosecution of those responsible for crimes against humanity in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, according to Kyaw Win, the group’s chair.

IZMIR - Turkey’s top military general has attended in international military exercises held in the western Aegean province of Izmir.Turkish Chief of the General Staff Gen.

Hulusi Akar was among the 65 observers and representatives from 38 countries attended the “Distinguished Observer Day” on Thursday in the daytime session on the fourth day of EFES 2018

Combined Joint Military Exercise.Among the observers of the live-fire military drill were Azerbaijan’s Defense Minister Col. Gen...

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By Ali Abo Rezeg

ISTANBUL - Neturei Karta, a New York-based Jewish group, believes the modern state of Israel -- through its abuse and dispossession of the Palestinian people -- has “hijacked” the word “Judaism”.Speaking to Anadolu Agency in Istanbul this week, Neturei Karta spokesman Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss stressed his group’s longstanding

opposition to the Israeli state.“Judaism clearly tells us we are forbidden to create even one inch of a Jewish state -- not only in Palestine but in the rest of the world,” Weiss said. Citing Jewish scripture to support these claims, he said the Jews had been told not to return to the Holy Land in large numbers before the coming of their awaited Messiah.“But instead, the Zionists have made...

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