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Turkey bans another pro-LGBT event in İstanbul: report

Authorities in İstanbul have banned the "Queer Olympix," organizers said Saturday, becoming the latest pro-LGBT event to be cancelled in Turkey, AFP reported. Some 130 participants were...

Video showing husband stabbing wife sparks outrage in Turkey

The murder of a Turkish woman by her ex-husband in front of her daughter sparked outrage on Friday after a video of the attack went viral...

Babacan’s new party to be established by end of year: report

An aide of Turkey’s former deputy prime minister Ali Babacan has said a new political party that Babacan aims to found will be established by the...

Turkish journalist detained on terrorism charges released on probation

Ayşegül Tözeren, a columnist for the Evrensel daily and a poet who was detained by police early Tuesday on suspicion of terrorist links. was released from...

17 detained in Ankara during protests over removal of Kurdish mayors

Police on Thursday detained 17 people who took part in a demonstration in Turkey’s capital city of Ankara in protest of a recent decision by the...

Governor’s office removes 4 neighborhood officials from posts in Batman province

The governor’s office of the eastern Turkish province of Batman removed four elected neighborhood officials, or muhtars, from their posts shortly after the mayors of three...

Diyarbakır Governor’s Office instigated removal of Kurdish mayor a day after the election: report

While the Turkish government maintained that the recent ousting of three Kurdish mayors from office was the result of investigations that were launched after the election, a...

İzmir police detain 27 lawyers at protest over removal of Kurdish mayors

Police in İzmir detained 26 lawyers and one journalist during a protest on Thursday over the removal of recently elected Kurdish mayors from office, the Mezopotamya news...

Turkish minister says removal of Kurdish mayors was counterterrorism operation

Turkey’s interior minister, Süleyman Soylu, on Thursday said the removal of three Kurdish mayors from office earlier this week was a counterterrorism operation, the state-run Anadolu...

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...

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,...

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