"Areas affected by the earthquake have a large electoral turnover."
Polling in Turkey's earthquake-affected areas is taking place in schools (damaged and undamaged) and inside camps for the displaced, says Al Jazeera’s Omar Halabi.
Two men wearing Islamic kufi caps and shalwar trousers were verbally and physically attacked by a passenger on the Istanbul metro on the eve of Turkey’s presidential elections ⤵️
Turkey's leading opposition figure and head of the People’s Republican Party, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, referred to his famous campaign slogan “I promise spring will come” after casting his ballot.
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Turkey's Supreme Council for Elections has announced that votes made for Muharrem Ince, who withdrew from the election, will be counted and will not be considered invalid, reports Al Jazeera’s Farah al-Zaman Shawqi.
With many polling stations experiencing long voter queues, the Istanbul Bar Association has reminded people who are waiting at 5pm that they will be allowed to vote.
Polling stations in Turkey close after momentous elections aje.io/8u3hfa
Polls have closed in Turkey’s pivotal elections.
Political drama aside, voting stations saw a range of distinctive characters, including the world’s tallest man, a horseback rider dressed like an Ottoman soldier, and hospital patients determined to vote ⤵️
Voting has now ended in Turkey’s elections as President Erdogan faces the biggest political challenge of his two-decade rule.
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"We ask our citizens to follow our statements."
A CHP spokesman has said that his party sees a “positive picture” in vote results and accused the state-run Anadolu Agency of manipulating the data it receives.
"It is an attempt to assassinate the national will."
Omer Celik, a spokesperson for Turkey's ruling AK Party, has criticised opposition leaders over their comments alleging “manipulation” by the state-run Anadolu Agency.
Al Jazeera’s Hashem Ahelbarra, reporting from CHP HQ in Turkey's capital Ankara, says the party is feeling “more and more confident” with preliminary results coming in and cutting into President Erdogan’s lead.
UNRWA says Israeli forces have forced between 60,000 and 70,000 Palestinians to evacuate from Khan Younis in southern Gaza to the already densely crowded al-Mawasi area.
Israeli forces have bombed a home in the Jabalia area of northern Gaza, killing at least two Palestinians and wounding others, according to the report.
Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has signed an order banning all visits to Palestinian prisoners for another month, extending a ban that has been in place since Israel launched its war on Gaza.
Paramedics and witnesses reported finding children 'torn to pieces' and 'body parts everywhere' after Israeli attacks hit a school sheltering forcibly displaced Palestinians.
At least 17 Palestinians were killed and 60 injured, including paramedics, as Israeli warplanes repeatedly targeted the Hamama and al-Huda school complex sheltering Palestinian families.
An Israeli woman has been killed and three others wounded in the city of Holon after a Palestinian man from the occupied West Bank attacked them with a knife, reports the Times of Israel.
The Australian government has imposed financial sanctions and travel bans on seven Israeli settlers and a youth group for violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
Save the Children reports that thousands of missing Palestinian children are trapped under rubble, buried in unmarked graves, harmed by explosives, detained by Israeli forces, or lost in the chaos of the war on Gaza.
Israel’s top court has ordered the government to provide information about conditions inside the military facility Sde Teiman, where Palestinians from Gaza are detained.
Malnourished Palestinian children are being treated at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, as Israel continues to restrict aid to the besieged enclave.
The UN is adding Israel to its 'blacklist' of countries that have committed abuses against children in armed conflict, as more than 15,500 Palestinian children have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7.
An Israeli air attack on a home in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in northern Gaza has killed at least four Palestinians and injured 14 more, the Wafa news agency reports.
Two Palestinian men have been shot during an Israeli raid in the Aqabat Jabr camp in the occupied West Bank city of Jericho, the Wafa news agency reports.