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Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is systematically trying to undermine the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) to prevent it from crossing the 10 percent threshold in the June 7 election, main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal K?l?çdaro?lu has said. 

A simple, multiplayer game on the web has become the latest battleground for Turkish politics ahead of the June 7 general election, gaming website Kotaku has reported.

In Agar.io, a player controls a tiny, colored cell gunning to eat smaller cells and avoid being slurped into someone else's mass.

A consensus is established among the opponents of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) governance. How many votes the AKP and other bigger parties will get is important. Just as important, however, is how many votes a fourth and smaller party, the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), will get in futile efforts to avoid its traditional micro-nationalist political rhetoric.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) head Kemal K?l?çdaro?lu has vowed to support farmers if his party is elected in the June 7 general elections during a campaign stop in the Central Anatolian province of Konya. 

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy candidate Elif Do?an Türkmen was wounded in an armed attack at around 9 a.m. on May 26 in a restaurant in the southern Turkish province of Adana, Do?an News Agency has reported.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has reiterated his accusations that the country's opposition parties in parliament, the Republican People's Party (CHP), the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), were acting together as a coalition against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).

Bar?? Sulu has made headlines as an openly gay individual running for parliament on the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) ticket in the June 7 parliamentary election.

Villagers in the Aegean town of Y?rca have planted olive trees in the place where more than 6,000 olive trees were felled for the construction of a coal power plant in late 2014 even though locals had stood guard to prevent the destruction.

Spain's ruling People's Party (PP) took a battering in regional and local elections on May 24 after voters punished Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy for four years of severe spending cuts and a string of corruption scandals.

Turkey has come a long way since political parties promised the moon to voters despite little hope of keeping their promises, according to an economics professor at TOBB University.