In a tricky race, Erdogan is re-elected
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey beat the opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu in a runoff yesterday with 52.1 % of the vote, in line with Turkey’s Supreme Election Council, assuring the mercurial chief one other 5 years in energy.
Erdogan, who has vexed his Western allies in NATO whereas tightening his grip on the Turkish state, may stay in energy for a minimum of a quarter-century. His victory deepens his conservative imprint on Turkish society, as he pursues his imaginative and prescient of a rustic with rising financial and geopolitical would possibly.
His supporters shrugged off Turkey’s challenges, together with a looming financial disaster, and lauded him for enhancing the nation’s standing as a Muslim energy with 85 million folks and significant ties throughout continents. 1000’s gathered exterior the presidential palace in Ankara, waiving purple and white Turkish flags.
Victory speech: “It isn’t solely us who gained, it’s Turkey,” Erdogan stated to raucous applause. “It’s our nation that gained with all its parts. It’s our democracy.”
Opposition: Kilicdaroglu advised his supporters that he didn’t contest the vote depend however that the election total had been unfair, however. Within the run-up to the vote, Erdogan tapped state sources to tilt the enjoying area in his favor.
Ought to a former Wagner mercenary obtain asylum?
Andrei Medvedev, a Russian who claims to have abandoned from Russia’s Wagner mercenary pressure throughout the battle for the Ukrainian metropolis of Bakhmut, is in search of asylum in Norway whereas offering info on Wagner to the authorities.
His unlikely journey has made Medvedev one in every of solely a handful of publicly recognized Russian combatants to hunt safety in Europe after collaborating within the invasion. His asylum request is now forcing Norway to resolve a case that pits the nation’s humanitarian ethos towards an more and more assertive nationwide safety coverage and solidarity with Ukraine.
Since arriving within the nation in January, Medvedev has attended interviews with Norwegian cops investigating battle crimes in Ukraine. He has described killing Ukrainians in fight and witnessing the executions of comrades accused of cowardice, however he claims that he didn’t take part in or witness battle crimes, such because the killings of prisoners of battle and civilians.
Pushback: Activists in Ukraine and Western Europe say that giving protected haven in Europe to Russian fighters, particularly mercenaries like Medvedev, fails to carry Russians accountable for the invasion. He may additionally have difficult his personal request with bar fights and detentions in Norway, and by briefly posting a video on YouTube suggesting he wished to return to Russia.
Quotable: “It goes to the core of who we’re in Europe,” Cecilie Hellestveit, a former member of Norway’s asylum enchantment board, stated. “It forces us to re-evaluate our strategy to human rights in a manner that we have now not been prepared to do till now.”
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A debt restrict deal within the U.S.
A day after hanging a deal in precept with President Biden to boost the U.S. debt restrict, Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his management group started to rally Republicans behind a compromise that faces harsh criticism from the wings of each political events. Proponents hope to go the laws in time to avert a default, now projected by June 5.
Home Republicans circulated a one-page memo with 10 speaking factors in regards to the conservative advantages of the deal, together with a cap on authorities spending, stricter work necessities for People receiving authorities advantages and cuts to world well being funding.
Evaluation: The deal bolsters Biden’s argument that he’s dedicated to bipartisanship however comes at the price of rankling many in his personal get together, Peter Baker, our chief White Home correspondent, writes.
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Eight years in the past, Ryyan Alshebl, a Syrian refugee, crossed the Mediterranean Sea by dinghy and trekked throughout Europe on foot, ultimately in search of asylum in Germany.
Now he’s the mayor of Ostelsheim, a small, tight-knit village in southwestern Germany that’s believed to be the primary German city to elect a mayor from the almost a million Syrian refugees who reached the nation in 2015. Right here’s the way it occurred.
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Soccer has a time-wasting downside. How does the game resolve it? A number of high-profile examples of painful bouts of sluggish play have compelled soccer’s governing physique to seek for options.
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From The Occasions: On the primary day of the French Open, a uncommon assertion of defiance towards the battle in Ukraine by an athlete from Belarus or Russia.
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Farewell to ‘Succession’
The finale of HBO’s “Succession” has aired, placing to mattress (or not) the query of who inherits the media empire of the late tyrant, Logan Roy, writes James Poniewozik, the Occasions chief tv critic. (Don’t fear, we gained’t spoil it for you.)
“Like ‘Mad Males’ earlier than it, ‘Succession’ is a drama that additionally occurs to be the funniest factor on TV any given week,” James writes. And like “Dallas,” it’s a prime-time saga that makes use of scrumptious dialogue and sibling rivalries to discover the actual nature of wealth in its time. One distinction: Right now, the very wealthy are very, very, very richer.
There may be one more necessary distinction, James writes. “I as soon as wrote that ‘Succession’ viewers ‘can take pleasure in it understanding that we have now no stake, aside from the tiny reality that individuals just like the Roys run the world.’ This last season has emphasised that that could be a very large ‘besides.’”
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