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US says Turkey’s removal of Kurdish mayors ‘concerning’

State Department Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus in a press briefing on Wednesday criticized Turkey’s action two days before in ousting three Kurdish mayors from office...

3 soldiers killed, 1 injured in clash with PKK in SE Turkey

Three Turkish soldiers were killed and another was injured during a clash with the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the southeastern province of Şırnak on...

ECtHR asks Turkey to provide defense for Wikipedia ban by end of October

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has asked Turkey to provide a defense statement justifying a two-year-long ban on popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia by Oct....

Erdoğan aide denies plans for removal of İstanbul, Ankara mayors

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s aide İbrahim Kalın has denied reports about government plans to remove from office the İstanbul and Ankara mayors, who are both...

Gov’t-appointed trustee dissolves HDP-majority Van City Council

Mehmet Emin Bilmez, appointed by Turkey’s Interior Ministry as a trustee in place of the mayor of Van, who was removed by the government from office,...

At least 20 high appeals court judges to boycott ceremony at Erdoğan’s palace: report

At least 20 judges from Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals have decided to boycott the opening ceremony of the new judicial year at the presidential palace...

Unregistered Syrian migrants given 2-month reprieve for leaving Istanbul

Turkey has extended to Oct. 30 its deadline for Syrian migrants not registered in Istanbul to leave the city or face forced removal, Interior...

503 forest fires scorch 1,344 acres of Turkish land in a month: report

Turkey has experienced 503 forest fires in the last month, according to the Habertürk news website, destroying 1,344 hectares of land. A total of 1,345 forest fires...

Residents of 56 pct of Turkish provinces subjected to polluted air: report

The people in more than half of Turkey’s 81 provinces — 56 percent — breathed polluted air last year, according to the Right to Clean Air...

6 journalists detained amid protests against removal of Kurdish mayors

Six journalists in Mardin and Diyarbakır were taken into police custody while following protests against the government removal of three Kurdish mayors on Monday, according to...

Turkey’s housing sales fall 17.5 percent year-on-year in July: report

Turkish house sales fell 17.5 percent year-on-year in July, the seventh consecutive month of declines, according to official data released on Tuesday, with an economic slowdown...

Turkey notified of attacks on HTS militants in Idlib: Lavrov

Turkey has been notified about attacks on Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) militants in Syria’s Idlib region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, according to Sputnik International,...

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