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Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, joint presidential candidate for six opposition parties, speaks to a large crowd of supporters ahead of Sunday’s elections

PES: 45% of Turkish citizens vote for democratic change

The campaign continues and European socialists hope all those demanding change in Türkiye seize the opportunity of the presidential runoff vote to make change happen….

Future of Europe & Neighbourhood
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu leader of CHP - flanked by İYİ Parti leader Meral Akşener (left) and Saadet Partisi leader Temel Karamollaoğlu (right) - speaking after he was confirmed as the Turkish opposition's joint candidate to run against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey's Presidential elections in May. Ankara, Turkey, 6 March 2023. Alp EREN KAYA / Republican People's Party (CHP) Press Service / AFP

PES supports Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu’s pledge to fast-track EU visa liberalisation process for Turkish citizens

The Party of European Socialists (PES), as the second largest political family represented in the EU, supports the opposition’s joint presidential candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu’s pledge…

Future of Europe & Neighbourhood
Next PES Congress will take place in Spain, the presidency decided

Next PES Congress will take place in Spain, the presidency decided

The PES 2023 Congress will take place in Spain by the end of this year, the PES Presidency decided today. Following the opening of the…

PES
Meeting chair and Finland’s Minister for European Affairs and Ownership Steering Tytti Tuppurainen (left) and PES Deputy Secretary General Yonnec Polet

PES Europe ministers urge to strengthen EU community of values

The European Union must never turn a blind eye to rule of law challenges in member states, Europe ministers from the Party of European Socialists…

Democracy, Justice, Rule of Law
Participants of the PES Foreign Policy Network meeting

PES Foreign Policy Network: Ukraine must be fully and fairly rebuilt

Our support for Ukraine has no end date, European socialists and democrats said today as they called for longer-term planning to begin for the fair…

Peace, International Affairs & Cooperation
PES President Stefan Löfven (eighth from left), PES Secretary General Achim Post (fifth from left), PES Executive Secretary General Giacomo Filibeck (first left) and other high-level progressives at the FES Zeitenwende Conference in Warsaw, Poland, today.

Zeitenwende Conference: PES leaders united for more sovereign Europe

Europe must become more independent, more resilient and a stronger foreign policy actor. This was the message sent from Warsaw, Poland, today by Europe’s socialists…

Peace, International Affairs & Cooperation

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