allies the big winners in the parliamentary votes where the kurdish h.t.t.p. winning over fifty seats making just new legislative body more diverse than the previous one and it's that who really isn't that many in turkey will hope can help bridge the political divide that continues to affect turkish society speaking to the nation i don't seem to understand those concerns. we're his jim sin and. no one should be discriminated against in this country because of their belief because of their gender or because of their origins we will not allow this. the opposition will be disappointed that they were unable to at least force a second round of voting they will take part however from their improved performance in the parliament and the fact that a relatively unknown president like was able to secure a thirty percent in such an important election with the big three i do not own a home run figure. what efficient sarky the day the first time for. years now i can. possibly even see the other side he was coming from out of the difficult because. recent history no one. wi

this time of the gathering for supporters of the pro kurdish h.t.t.p. party. these are mentioned this is not there are these people who stand by at once party and don't feel they belong in germany we should think about what has gone wrong here for people to still feel so connected to turkey. the turkish community here in germany is now facing a very different turkey to the one they once knew the facts not lost on anyone supporters if they celebrate a new chapter in turkish politics. now in other news the leaders of sixteen e.u. countries have stressed their willingness to find a solution to the blocs longstanding migration debate but they ended a last minute emergency meeting in brussels on sunday without any concrete decisions a full e.u. wide summit is coming up on thursday german chancellor angela merkel is seeking a short term deal with other e.u. member states to cope with the migration crisis german chancellor angela merkel who's in brussels looking to her fellow e.u. leaders for backing on migration austria's chancellor sebastian could stake some more h

during all of intellectuals who also have been funding the poor kurdish party the h.t.t.p. has made it into parliament as have several other bodies how strong is a k.p. in parliament. well eartha one taking a pee in fact lost its majority in parliament it now has to rely on its electoral partners the nationalist faction party who it has been working closely with in the last two years but they have done extremely well much better than anyone predicted so in many ways they have a much stronger hand in parliament itself and one will have to work with them and they will possibly be dictating a far harder line towards the battle against kurdish insurgents and kurdish rights in some ways it could restrict third one some billeted to maneuver to some degree but the fact remains at the end of the day parliament's influence is very much reduced i don't know what does enter jones reelection expanded powers mean for turkey's relations with the e.u. as well as for the country's foreign policy darian well it certainly enhances his position when he deals with the european union he has bee

votes now counted his main rival martin in change came second with thirty percent of the pro kurdish h.t.t.p. is set to become the third largest party in the fall. sixteen e.u. leaders have held emergency talks on migration ahead of a big summit later this week it's the latest attempt to ease the deadlock over who should take in migrants and refugees landing on european soil. hundreds of yemenis are fleeing their homes in the data as fighting moves closer to the city center the saudi and amorality that coalition has been bombing the port city for the past twelve days to drive out hoofy rebels. now the u.s. president donald trump says any migrants who as he put it invade the u.s. should be sent home without appearing before a judge he's continuing his hardline rhetoric on migration despite a u. turn on separating children from their parents the government's now trying to reunite the family. in a remote detention center. the reports from lost and texas. in one of the most remote corners of southern texas vehicles coming in going from here this immigration and customs enforcement detention faci

friends are canvassing for turkey's pro kurdish h.t.t.p. party system but this is for the election in turkey were against the one they did get was against area one ok i'll take one over. this very left because of president are gone he's very concerned about politics in his home country he's been. indicted and i've been in germany for six years and won the guns and many of my friends and my entire family are still there free then and they're dissatisfied and we have to change it or topple this government but not everyone here is against and on these women are complaining for the turkish president and his a.k.p. party they don't like speaking to the german press and initially brushed me off. this whose party colleagues from the age c.p.c. to present often take a piece of porter's as a provocation they shout added one is that terrorist agha one is a murderer. a heated answer comes right back the passer by says you are the real murderous she's doing the right thing with you you did sue if it i'm happy that type aggro on exists oh i took. this w

that you took i for part of even the oppositional pro kurdish h.t.t.p. is not afraid of bold breaking in germany but they complain that no one from the h.t.t.p. is committed to accompany the ballot boxes to turkey and once they feel rife. it will be days before they are counted. the slim is that what's bad is that the vote banks will be locked up for three or four days in storage rooms and we don't know what will happen after the length of trust between the various political camps still in berlin. and the government in afghanistan has announced a weeklong safe file with the taliban to coincide with the festival of aid which marks the end of ramadan president ashraf ghani made the surprise announcement after a meeting of islamic clerics this week declared a fatwa over ruling against suicide bombings this is the first time president to god he has off the top of not an unconditional cessation of hostilities the taliban has made no response. from a swiss freelance journalist to france amati who joins us from the afghan the capital kabul welcome to g.w. what'

even the opposition pro kurdish h.t.t.p. is not afraid of vote rigging in germany but they complain that no one from the h.t.t.p. is permitted to accompany the ballot boxes to turkey and once they've arrived. it will be days before they're counted. the slim is that because that is that the vote bank will be a lot different three or four days in storage rooms and we don't know what will happen there was this him on the. the lack of trust between the various political camps also in berlin. and for more let's go now to turkey and our correspondent dorian jones who is standing by with the latest from istanbul and dorian as we saw there early voting in the snap election now currently under way give us a sense of how crucial these overseas votes will be particularly those from germany . what it's about three million overseas voters of which germany accounts for about a hof of those votes now that's about seven percent of the fifty five million electorate and now those votes could be key to the outcome of the june polls because the

of the pro kurdish h.t.t.p. pulled in just over eight percent but this victory at on will assume sweeping new powers added to the presidency last year and a referendum that was backed by a small majority of turks. was not. really. one nation one flag one country the crowd chant led by one man russia type ad one has tightened his grip on power in taki off to winning sunday's presidential poll he thanked his supporters in ankara after the electoral commission declared his victory. governor said it the winner of this election is democracy. we lead our nation. to sit in. the witness of this election every one of the eighty one million citizens. his supporters were overjoyed just. then. we were at the capital of democracy and human rights elections were perfect we've won a victory again i just tell you bad one is the best president the world can also. not celebrating as the main opposition c.h.p. party one's main challenger. had earlier warned of irregularities and accuse the state run news agency of manipulating the

alliances majority in parliament this of course depends on whether the pro kurdish h.t.t.p. manages to cross the ten percent threshold and makes it into parliament and secondly there is more a manger the candidate of the largest opposition party here the c.h.p. he really is invigorating the turkish opposition making people believe that change indeed is possible he is very self-confident he's a good talker and he has easy promises and messages he for example says if you will for me i will turn mr allen's fancy presidential palace here in ankara into university into a place for the people i will not give you any election presents i will give you jobs and i'll give you your freedoms back and this is an important men message for many people here so a vote that seems to be no won't at all in the beginning has really turned into this decision for turkish voters and it will be the toughest test in sixteen years for mr add one and his a.k.p. you know there's also the question of whether these elections are going to be free and fair just quickly what are you hearing. well there are p

party received around thirty one percent of the vote while selling the team to matusz of the pro kurdish h.t.t.p. has pulled in just over eight percent. now parliamentary elections were also held on sunday and everyone's islamic conservative a.k. party in an alliance has also secured a parliamentary majority with his dual victories are to won will assume sweeping new powers added to the presidency last year in a referendum. i was not a birth. we learned. that one nation one flag one country the crowd chant led by one man reject type other one has tightened his grip on power in turkey after winning sunday's presidential poll he thanked his supporters in ankara after the electoral commission declared his victory holding all those who called the show to the winner it was this election is democracy. me lose our nation result you can use it. the winners of this election every one of the eighty one million citizens. his supporters were overjoyed. then work that we were at the capital of democracy and human rights elections were perfect we've won a victory again that's i've heard one is the best presid

of the pro kurdish h.t.t.p. has pulled in around eight percent let's bring in our correspondent yulia han and she's been following the latest developments for us and she joins us from outside the main opposition party the c.h.p. headquarters hi yulia we mentioned that earlier one has claimed a victory in the presidential vote also says the a k party's alliance has a majority in the parliamentary vote as well tell us what's been happening. well here at the c.h.p. the largest opposition party here in turkey many disappointed faces we talked to some people here who say they don't really trust the results and they fear this is going to silence all democracy that's been left here in turkey so a lot of disappointed a lot of disbelief still in fact as you mentioned this ad on declared his victory but we don't have any official results yet so the only authority who could announce such an official result is the supreme electoral board the high electoral commission here in ankara so we're still waiting for that and the bi

even the opposition pro kurdish h.t.t.p. is not afraid of vote rigging in germany but they complain that no one from the h.t.t.p. is permitted to accompany the ballot boxes to turkey and once they've arrived. it will be days before they're counted. the slim is that which that is that the vote banks will be locked up for three or four days in storage rooms and we don't know what will happen there. a lack of trust between the various political camps also in berlin. and while it's going to turkey and our correspondent dorian jones who is standing by with the latest from istanbul so dorian we know that this snap election is currently underway how crucial were these will these overseas votes be particularly those from germany. well it's about three million overseas voters of weak germany account for just on the whole of that now about seven percent of the electorate now those vote could be key because the presidential and general election all true close to cool and president will be looking for a very high turnout movies he's bot

allies the big winners in the parliamentary votes where the kurdish h.t.t.p. winning over fifty seats making just new legislative body more diverse than the previous one and it's that who is among the many in turkey will hope can help bridge the political divide that continues to affect turkish society speaking to the nation i don't seem to understand those concerns. we're here. no one should be discriminated against in this country because of their belief because of their gender or because of their origins we will not allow this. the opposition will be disappointed that they were unable to at least force a second round of voting they will take heart however from their improved performance in the parliament and the fact that a relatively unknown person like i was able to secure thirty percent in such an important election with. not only one ticket. the first time for him hard. to believe in the other he. took time to become. rich in history no one. will be telling the current. political economic. i'm coming. or the new executive powers for the president may no

not stopping opposition candidates from running against him even if they're in jail the poll kurdish h.t.t.p. presidential candidate in the montage was detained in november two thousand and sixteen he told the istanbul correspondent on what it is like campaigning behind bars. the. hot dania is a political campaign a through and through from sun up to sundown he can be found working the streets of istanbul district he's drumming up support for the program. the voters who don't cross his path are unlikely to learn much about the party's program many turkish media outlets don't report on them if it bit you get is in the heat you. we don't get any airtime on turkish t.v. you love the we're practically invisible they're broadcasters and newspapers that have reported on us that they've been shut down if city they want to make it difficult for us because it's a little head again george clooney we're not going to give up the good. of the modern. according to the watchdog reporters without borders more than eighty percent of turkish media are owned by companies close to president. that is particularl

while the pro kurdish h.t.t.p. down standoff was issued to the other two even though we can get into millions of prunes a variety so we do it on the streets by looking into the people's eyes by touching their kids are not used here we just tell everyone how it is with no exaggeration of we're telling them just the truth in our project all the opposition parties know they have little chance of unseating president but they also know polls suggest that his ruling ak party might lose its palm entered majority and even forced into a second round runoff for the presidency. but they feel it's worth shouting our own about sixty seven percent of the electorate have yet to decide how are they going to vote according to the latest polls but that's about three and a half million people and in a race as tight as this every vote counts but it's what al-jazeera has stumbled. police in india say they are questioning several suspects after the gang rape of five female charity workers in a remote region in the east of the country th

while the pro kurdish h.t.t.p. down stay in opposition to the other tell you. we can get into millions of prunes a variety so we do it on the streets by looking into the people of our eyes by touching them. here we just tell everyone how it is with no exaggeration of what we're telling them just the truth in our project. all the opposition parties know they have little chance of unseating president but they also know polls suggest that his ruling ak party might lose its parliament to majority and even forced into a second round runoff for the presidents. but i feel. now at about six to seven percent of the electorate have yet to decide how are they going to vote according to the latest polls but that's about three and a half million people and in a race as tight as this every vote. but it's an al-jazeera has stumbled. on to tell you about on the program indian police investigate the abduction and gang rape of five activists who are about to perform a play to raise awareness of human trafficking. are a moment of formality for greece's prime minister after doing

well so what does the election result mean for the cuts and to keep the pro kurdish h.t.t.p. party posse election threshold to an almost twelve percent of the six hundred seats in the parliament they will be campaigning for gray to cut issue influence but they face ultra nationalists rivals who also gain seats in the assembly as you were just hearing their mama develop reports from down because in southern turkey. the skyline of the article on sunday night when the election results were announced. the kurdish democratic people's party or h d p celebrated winning sixty seven seats in parliament close to their highest achievement of seats three years ago all of the continual surely we only have the results are going to be beneficial for our country all the people have made their choice we should respect it unlawful search and buy circuit i'm not happy with the result because we're going to remain under one model real i think he has to adopt an attitude richard morris is all sides should stop marginalizing people and segregating them. the other because it is the capital of the c

all the votes counted his main rival marine in che came second with thirty percent of the pro kurdish h.t.t.p. is set to become the third largest party in parliament jamal al shiloh has more now from the ruling a k p headquarters in ankara. despite a lot of the reports in the lead up to sunday's vote fame and it was going to be a tightly contested election president projects a bit over one only he did the first round. and she secured a second term as president you're now the difference between a man and across the system i don't think a repeat ten million votes now in the first statement made by president but the favored one those results came he said that she was the president for full charge she promised that he would not allow for anybody to be discriminated against inside surjeet just because of their political leaders who they voted for their ethnic background there obviously when it comes with a background one of the ethnic minorities just like you to go to my knowledge you found sunday to be a joyful day for them because their parties if you wanted to cross the ten percent just holding

the help of their nationalist m h p allies the big winners in the parliamentary votes where the kurdish h.t.t.p. winning over fifty seats making just new legislative body more diverse than the previous one and it's that who it is i'm that many in turkey will hope can help bridge the political divide that continues to affect turkish society speaking to the nation i don't seem to understand those concerns. we're in his gym. no one should be discriminated against in this country because of their belief because of their gender or because of their origins we will not allow this. the opposition will be disappointed that they were unable to at least force a second round of voting they will take heart however from their improved performance in the parliament and the fact that's a relatively unknown person like i was able to secure thirty percent in such an important election with this victory i do not only hope for once again that he was the single most popular household addition and sarky the surrogate up by becoming the first summer thank you jim hall seven years now and you. have to believe in the f

while the pro kurdish h.t.t.p. down stay in opposition when it is the other day that. we can get into millions of prunes a variety so we do it on the streets by looking into the people of our eyes by touching them. here we just tell everyone how it is with no exaggeration and we're telling them just the truth in our project. all the opposition parties know they have little chance of unseating president but they also know polls suggest that his ruling ak party might lose its polman to majority and even forced into a second round runoff for the presidency. but they feel it's worth shouting now at about six to seven percent of the electorate have yet to decide how are they going to vote according to the latest polls about about three and a half million people and in a race as tight as most every vote counts but it's what al-jazeera has stumbled. events have been held in the u.k. to mark seventy years since hundreds of migrants arrived from the caribbean they became known as the wind rush generation of to the name of the ship they sailed on and paved the way for many thous

that if you took i for fatah even the opposition pro kurdish h.t.t.p. is not afraid of vote rigging in germany but they complain that no one from the h.t.t.p. is permitted to accompany the ballot boxes to turkey and once. they've arrived it will be days before they're counted. the slim is that what's bad is that the vote banks will be a lot different three or four days in storage rooms and we don't know what will happen there. a lack of trust between the various political camps also in berlin. let's get the view from turkey that from dorian jones tombo welcome door and tell us about the importance of ex-pat votes to the outcome which is about three million voters of which germany accounts for just under a half of that and these three million votes is about seven percent of the total electorate going forward given the fact that this general and presidential elections are proving to be increasingly competitive the vote could be critical to turning outcome and that's why i heard one will be looking for a very high turnout given that in the polls overseas v

while the pro kurdish h.t.t.p. down stay in opposition when it is the other day that. we can get into millions of prunes a variety so we do it on the streets by looking into the people's eyes by touching them. here we just tell everyone how it is with no exaggeration and we're telling them just the truth in our project. all the opposition parties know they have little chance of unseating president but they also know polls suggest that his ruling ak party might lose its parliament to majority and even forced into a second round runoff for the presidency. that they feel is worth shouting now about sixty seven percent of the electorate have yet to decide how are they going to vote according to the latest polls but that's about three and a half million people and in a race as tight as this every vote. but it's about al-jazeera it's double. every couple headlines here a non-zero and the u.s. government is continuing to be criticized for its treatment of migrant children despite saying it's ending the practice of separating them from their parents at the border still a lot o

more disappointment this time of the gathering for supporters of the pro kurdish h.t.t.p. party. these are mentioned this is not are these people who stand by at once party and don't feel they belong in germany we should think about what has gone wrong here for people to still feel so connected to turkey and. the turkish community here in germany is now facing a very different turkey to the one they once knew a fax not lost on at once a porter's they celebrate a new chapter in turkish politics. look at some other stories making news around the wild the libyan coast guard says it's rescued seven hundred refugees from rubber dinghies in a series of operations off the north african coast among them where many children a strong of course contras this is reported to have shop to cut the number of ceilings since last summer. monsoon season india is wreaking havoc in parts of the country this was the aftermath of a storm that hit the nation's financial capital by to ensure rains of also triggered severe flash floods in the east as well as in neighboring bangladesh killing dozens of peop

while the pro kurdish h.t.t.p. downstate opposition to the other two even. we can't get into millions of proving. so we do it on the streets by looking into the people's eyes by touching them. here we just tell everyone how it is with no exaggeration we're telling them just the truth in our project all the opposition parties know they have little chance of unseating president but they also know polls suggest that his ruling ak party might lose its palm entered majority and even forced into a second round run off for the presidency. but they feel it's worth shouting out about six to seven percent of the electorate have yet to decide how are they going to vote according to the latest polls but that's about three and a half million people and in a race as tight as this every vote counts but it's what al jazeera has stumbled. onto there has launched the second phase of an international press freedom campaign when the news is restricted and send said the press. in this extent it condemns the harassment of journalists and urges people to demand press freedom aroun

the pro kurdish peoples democratic party or h.t.t.p. can openly sing pro kurdish songs on ferries like this one. many h.t.t.p. members are in prison. elsewhere its rallies have been attacked or banned but in izmir the ruling aka party moves their stand to make space for the opposition party. and the police stay back looking relaxed this could only happen in israel. because some kozel is amazed to see parties which were once bitter enemies stand side by side across the country for opposition parties have joined forces to prevent the reelection of president out along the main opposition c.h.p. the now. list party the democratic party and the small is no mr assad it or felicity party sa debt supporters in particular are not accustomed to working together with secular parties. thought they were going to be living together so why not cooperate now for the future of this country. cousin kozel would not vote for any of them but he welcomes that they work together to resist the looming threat against the country's democratic system. ok it's not

leader of the recent deforms nationalist party and there is a team to mirror tash of the kurdish opposition party h.t.t.p. and is being forced to run his campaign from behind bars and he's currently on trial on terrorism charges and then there's turkey's biggest opposition party the secular republican people's party or c hate speech and is being represented by senior lawmaker more her him in jail and he's seen as the countess with the biggest chance of the saying erdogan turkey's political parties are doing their final campaigning ahead of sunday's polling correspondent during jones's in istanbul after a rally organized by the biggest opposition party the c.h.p. over a million people are expense of spectators to attend this event and it is looking like a pretty close election do you think that the opposition are optimistic dorian. well even though world one is believed still to be ahead the opposition believe they have the momentum and that spanks may need to c.h.p. canted up warren injera who due to speak shortly behind me his message of unity and justice has been carrying across the country even into t

being a pro kurdish party. well h.t.t.p. is going to get majority seems of the kurdish wote but it also will get waltz from urban centers like is stumbles the so-called strategy quarters most of which probably r.c.h. the waters we would not be able to say this for sure until the exit polls are carried out and on till the exact results are out by starting from six pm today but. all the polls that are carried out show how crucially important those strategies voters are for h.t.t.p. passing the ten percent threshold if p.h.p. does not pass the ten percent threshold that would mean net sixty to seventy members of parliament shifting. from h.t.t.p. to two airline says but again according to a credible studies. if that happens to be the case six or seven of those. parliamentary seats at max some of them will go to the opposition alliance and the rest will be going to the alliance of akbar t. and m h b is the could call it as the governing coalition. then the governing coalition will be having a majority a clean slate majority of pe

matters it will depend on whether the broad kurdish party was able to cross the ten percent threshold right and martin the image of the leader of the h.t.t.pthe pro kurdish party seller teen demi or tasha sitting in jail because that's where he's actually contesting the election from is not a great look is it it's not a great look and it speaks to the critics of president edouard as to the closing down of the political space that he has overseen during his time in office yeah that dates through it's not. it's not a nice picture to see that one of the presidential candidates is in prison but we have another political picture that. in spite of all these calls the people the party de de de couldn't or the didn't soar far cut their relationship with the old loved. this he's also accused because of his support for the key not because of any other political activities even during the election campaigns. could chairman of the party and many others they call for doing it. for. freedom for one and many other things still they do use the use these. non-political. language unfortunately dead therefore it's a problem and it will continue to be a probl

the smaller parties the religious one in a sense right well then you've got the first the kurdish ward from h.t.t.p. their candidate is present their present leader so together if h d p is able to pass the ten percent threshold h d p and the people's block would be having more seats in parliament than prisoners are gone and the right think book is created which would mean even if we if present are going to win the elections there will be a stalemate because majority there in the governing broke will be losing its majority in parliament so this will create another uncertainty for the country to further into for the next few years we know that president and his ak party swept to power on a platform that focused on jobs and economic growth and greater equality amongst the people how is he still has a base of support but how has public opinion shifted in the last five years i mean in two thousand and two turkey was just coming out of a huge crisis and economical crisis and the foundations of a new economy good model were laid down by kamal derwish who done was a c.h.p. politician from the main oppositi

groups celebrating in other parts of turkey in the parliamentary contest the pro kurdish people's democratic party your h.t.t.p. managed to suppose the ten percent threshold required to enter parliament it would now form the country's second largest opposition faction something which is surely a disappointment. but nevertheless his win the ashes in the new political system under which he becomes head of both state and government are one insists this will bring prosperity and stability to the country following a failed coup attempt to years ago but critics say the new system will further erode democracy in turkey. let's get more now on this election we are joined by john site yuki he is joining us from the center for economics and foreign policy studies that's an independent political think tank which is based in encore and we thank you so much for joining us this morning i'd like to just begin by first asking you because this election very much being seen as a key step in ceilings turkey's transition from a parliamentary to a presidential system what do you see as coming next for the country now. well good mor

this is how supporters of the pro kurdish peoples democratic party or h.t.t.p. are motivating the themselves ahead of turkey's election on june twenty fourth up till i came back she is hoping to get a seat in parliament but his state his party is the most disadvantaged in the country they cheapies presidential candidates a lot and demi trash has been in jail for more than eighteen months on security charges. a little of your own but we don't have any channel for propaganda the ruling party controls the press or politicians are in jail president has everything in hand to campaign freely is not fair an armed struggle between the state and the separatist kurdistan workers' party or p k k has lasted decades costing at least forty thousand lies. and the peace process worked out in two thousand and fifteen the following year a state of emergency was imposed after a failed coup attempt professor fox came on doesn't believe the kurdish issue is being properly addressed in his car to actually go back to the you know sort of political solution both inside and mainly you k