Strongman

The 74-year-old political veteran Kemal Kilicdaroglu may lack the charisma to unseat Turkey's strongman - but has gathered almost the entire opposition behind him on a mission to save democracy.

Within the scope of the Train Pulling Competition, a team comprising of five Istanbul metro employees has successfully managed to pull a train wagon along a railway line using nothing but their body strength in the Turkish metropolis.

Hungary's strongman premier Viktor Orban will be formally re-elected for a third straight term on May 8 with the country's beleaguered opposition facing an uncertain future.

Turkmenistan's reigning strongman Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov bagged a new seven-year term with nearly 98 percent of a weakly contested vote, electoral officials said on Feb. 13, following a preliminary count.

The widow of Serbia’s strongman Slobodan Milosevic, Mirjana Markovic, has published a 1000-page autobiography, covering her childhood, marriage and her husband's rise and fall.

The speaker of ex-Soviet Turkmenistan's pliant parliament has proposed constitutional changes extending the presidential term limit and removing the maximum age for the presidency, state media reported May 29.