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Hans India
26-05-2025
- Sport
- Hans India
Konda memorial football tourney from today
Vijayawada: The fourth Konda memorial football tournament will be held at Kennedy High School grounds, Nunna on May 26 and 27. The NTR district football association is hosting the tourney for under-13 and under 15/7 A side boys. The organisers said winners and runners will get prizes and lunch will be provided. Y Seshagiri Rao, president of NTR district football association and B Chakravarthy, secretary said the players can contact the organisers on mobile Nos 9441280384 and 7780771658 for registration of names to participate in the tournament. Seshagiri Rao said selection trials will be held for under 12-13 and under 14-15 teams at Kennedy High School, Nunna. He said the interested players can participate in the selections. They have to bring a birth certificate and Aadhar card. The selected players will represent NTR district and will participate in the Zonal Football tournament.
Yahoo
06-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Turkish support firms for jailed mayor Imamoglu vs Erdogan, polls show
By Birsen Altayli and Jonathan Spicer ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Popular support for Ekrem Imamoglu, the Istanbul mayor whose arrest sparked Turkey's largest protests in a decade, has risen further above President Tayyip Erdogan since he was detained and jailed in March, opinion polls show. Two surveys released in recent days suggest that Imamoglu's detention on March 19 has also reinforced views that he is Erdogan's main rival in any future presidential vote, even as he sits behind bars. The mayor was jailed on March 23 pending a hearing on corruption charges that he denies - a move that the opposition and some European leaders called politicised and anti-democratic, and which accelerated nationwide rallies. Erdogan's government rejects the criticism and says the judiciary is independent. It is unclear when Imamoglu, a two-term mayor, will have his day in court and whether he will be released. Investigations continue after he and more than 100 other officials from Turkey's largest city were detained on various charges. Surveys conducted in April by Metropoll and Konda, two top pollsters, show Imamoglu topping Erdogan by a comfortable margin in a hypothetical head-to-head election - though a vote is not due until 2028. They also show that, since the mayor's arrest nearly two months ago, Turkish voters have grown more deeply polarised between Erdogan's AK Party (AKP) and Imamoglu's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP). "If the election were held today, and Imamoglu and Erdogan went to the second round vote, Imamoglu would lead by seven (percentage) points," said Ozer Sencar, head of research at Metropoll, which put the mayor's support at 46.7% and the president's at 39.3%. Metropoll found that both the CHP and the AKP had received a roughly five percentage point boost in support since March, to 34% and 33% respectively, due largely to previously undecided voters picking sides. Last elected in 2023, Erdogan cannot run again under the law unless an early election is called and is backed by three-fifths of parliament, for which he would need support beyond his ruling conservative coalition. A CHP public petition calling for Imamoglu's freedom and early elections has surpassed 13 million signatures, according to Milliyet newspaper. The party did not respond when asked for the latest data. 'TWO-HORSE RACE' Erdogan, who has run Turkey for 22 years, has said that corruption appears deeply entrenched in Imamoglu's former city administration and that the probe will be comprehensive, comments the CHP has slammed as another breach of judicial independence. The Konda poll showed Imamoglu's support rising well past 40% in April, up from the previous month and sitting comfortably above Erdogan's in a hypothetical head-to-head vote, according to Aydin Erdem, the Istanbul firm's general manager. Erdogan leads when poll respondents were asked to select from a broader list of nine potential candidates, Konda found. But the number of undecided voters dropped sharply in April from March, with most backing one of the two men, suggesting the mayor's jailing reinforced a "growing polarization" in politics and the potential future "two horse-race", Erdem said. The Konda and Metropoll results were largely unpublished beyond clients. Some past survey results have shown Imamoglu's support at similarly elevated levels, including ahead of his decisive municipal election victory last year. A day before Imamoglu was detained, authorities revoked his university degree, which is required by law for any presidential run. On the day he was jailed, the CHP elected him its official presidential candidate in a previously-scheduled party vote. The head of another pollster, Mehmet Ali Kulat of MAK, said the future success of Imamoglu and his CHP will hinge largely on whether other opposition parties, particularly the pro-Kurdish DEM Party that backed CHP in the past, lend their support. DEM is in talks with the government to press for a peace deal with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has said it would dissolve after a call in February by its jailed leader to do so after a decades-long war with the Turkish state. (Reporting by Birsen Altayli and Jonathan Spicer; Editing by Daren Butler and Gareth Jones)
Straits Times
06-05-2025
- Politics
- Straits Times
Turkish support firms for jailed mayor Imamoglu vs Erdogan, polls show
FILE PHOTO: A person holds a placard during a rally to protest against the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu as part of a corruption investigation, in Istanbul, Turkey, March 29, 2025. REUTERS/Umit Bektas/File Photo ISTANBUL - Popular support for Ekrem Imamoglu, the Istanbul mayor whose arrest sparked Turkey's largest protests in a decade, has risen further above President Tayyip Erdogan since he was detained and jailed in March, opinion polls show. Two surveys released in recent days suggest that Imamoglu's detention on March 19 has also reinforced views that he is Erdogan's main rival in any future presidential vote, even as he sits behind bars. The mayor was jailed on March 23 pending a hearing on corruption charges that he denies - a move that the opposition and some European leaders called politicised and anti-democratic, and which accelerated nationwide rallies. Erdogan's government rejects the criticism and says the judiciary is independent. It is unclear when Imamoglu, a two-term mayor, will have his day in court and whether he will be released. Investigations continue after he and more than 100 other officials from Turkey's largest city were detained on various charges. Surveys conducted in April by Metropoll and Konda, two top pollsters, show Imamoglu topping Erdogan by a comfortable margin in a hypothetical head-to-head election - though a vote is not due until 2028. They also show that, since the mayor's arrest nearly two months ago, Turkish voters have grown more deeply polarised between Erdogan's AK Party (AKP) and Imamoglu's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP). "If the election were held today, and Imamoglu and Erdogan went to the second round vote, Imamoglu would lead by seven (percentage) points," said Ozer Sencar, head of research at Metropoll, which put the mayor's support at 46.7% and the president's at 39.3%. Metropoll found that both the CHP and the AKP had received a roughly five percentage point boost in support since March, to 34% and 33% respectively, due largely to previously undecided voters picking sides. Last elected in 2023, Erdogan cannot run again under the law unless an early election is called and is backed by three-fifths of parliament, for which he would need support beyond his ruling conservative coalition. A CHP public petition calling for Imamoglu's freedom and early elections has surpassed 13 million signatures, according to Milliyet newspaper. The party did not respond when asked for the latest data. 'TWO-HORSE RACE' Erdogan, who has run Turkey for 22 years, has said that corruption appears deeply entrenched in Imamoglu's former city administration and that the probe will be comprehensive, comments the CHP has slammed as another breach of judicial independence. The Konda poll showed Imamoglu's support rising well past 40% in April, up from the previous month and sitting comfortably above Erdogan's in a hypothetical head-to-head vote, according to Aydin Erdem, the Istanbul firm's general manager. Erdogan leads when poll respondents were asked to select from a broader list of nine potential candidates, Konda found. But the number of undecided voters dropped sharply in April from March, with most backing one of the two men, suggesting the mayor's jailing reinforced a "growing polarization" in politics and the potential future "two horse-race", Erdem said. The Konda and Metropoll results were largely unpublished beyond clients. Some past survey results have shown Imamoglu's support at similarly elevated levels, including ahead of his decisive municipal election victory last year. A day before Imamoglu was detained, authorities revoked his university degree, which is required by law for any presidential run. On the day he was jailed, the CHP elected him its official presidential candidate in a previously-scheduled party vote. The head of another pollster, Mehmet Ali Kulat of MAK, said the future success of Imamoglu and his CHP will hinge largely on whether other opposition parties, particularly the pro-Kurdish DEM Party that backed CHP in the past, lend their support. DEM is in talks with the government to press for a peace deal with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has said it would dissolve after a call in February by its jailed leader to do so after a decades-long war with the Turkish state. REUTERS Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
