TEKIRDAG, Turkey – Meral Aksener strides into the packed sports hall in the industrial town of Cerkezkoy exuding calm confidence. The approximately 1,500-2,000 people gathered to hear her speak erupt ...

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ISTANBUL — Meral Akşener relishes the idea that she frightens Turkey’s most powerful man. With a smirk, she lists headlines from pro-government newspapers painting her as a dangerous conspirator ...

Using “Turkey will be good” as its slogan and a bright sun as its logo, ex-Turkish minister Meral Aksener has launched a new political party with a promise to shake up the country’s politics. “Turkey ...

Meral Aksener doesn’t run from fights. Turkey’s former interior minister is known informally as asena, or she-wolf. When the country’s military took steps in 1997 to remove the government from power, ...

Quarrels between men end when a woman throws her headscarf on the ground, according to Turkish tradition. So presidential candidate Meral Aksener is going from town to town collecting these colorful ...

Meral Aksener, a Turkish presidential candidate and leader of the opposition Iyi (Good) Party, has announced her party’s manifesto for the upcoming elections, promising to fill what she calls “an ...

Working as the chairperson of a legal political party, demanding basic human rights and trying to be a conscientious individual would not be reasons for arrest in most parts of the world. But if you ...

Quarrels between men end when a woman throws her headscarf on the ground, according to Turkish tradition. So presidential candidate Meral Aksener is going from town to town collecting these colorful ...