June 2011 ~ İBG Blog

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Monday, June 13, 2011

Four parties to form new Turkish Parliament

7:45 PM 2011 ELECTIONS IN TURKEY, NATIONAL, POLITICS, Turkey, World

Four party groups will take their place in Turkey’s new Parliament as electoral officials had opened more than 90 percent of the nation’s ballot boxes by late Sunday. The ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, will form a majority government after winning over 50 percent of the popular vote; the incumbents will be joined again by the opposition Republican People's Party, or CHP, the Nationalist Movement Party, or MHP, and the Peace...

China Mongols protest in Xilinhot over shepherd's death

2:25 AM China, China Protest, Inner Mongolia, Inner Mongolia protests, QQ, sina, sina weibo, tencent, Tencent Weibo

Ethnic Mongolians in northern China have held a rare protest in front of a government building over the death of a shepherd. Crowds of students this week marched to the building in Xilinhot, a city in Inner Mongolia, rights groups said. They were angry at the 10 May death of a herder, Mergen, who they say was run over by a van driven by a Han Chinese, the country's dominant ethnicity. The Xilinhot government has not commented on the protest. In...

İsa Burak Gonca graduated from the Department of International Relations of the Faculty of Business and Economics of the Eastern Mediterranean University of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and the Masters Program in Political Science and International Relations of the Institute of Social Sciences of Yeditepe University. He is now a PhD Candidate in the Field of the International Relations of the Institute of Social Sciences of the Suleyman Demirel University. He is currently doing his PhD studies on China's energy security and geoeconomic interests in Central Asia.