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HDP to continue supporting İmamoğlu in İstanbul mayoral election

The Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party has decided to continue its support for Ekrem İmamoğlu, the mayoral candidate of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) in İstanbul, in...

CHP to launch drive for donations to fund İmamoğlu’s election campaign

The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has announced that it will launch a drive for donations to finance the election campaign of Ekrem İmamoğlu, who...

Public broadcaster cancels program of singer who supported opposition hashtag

The Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT), Turkey’s public broadcaster, has cancelled a radio program featuring Turkish singer Sibel Tüzün because she supported an opposition hashtag after...

Turkish academic begins serving prison sentence for signing 2016 peace petition

Professor Füsun Üstel, the first academic who signed a peace petition in 2016 to be incarcerated, turned herself in to prison authorities today to begin serving...

Turkey holds thousands in solitary in Erdoğan’s prisons: report

Thousands of prisoners are being held in solitary confinement in Turkey under conditions so harsh that some prisoners consider dying by suicide, Deutsche Welle Turkish service reported...

Police setting up security perimeters around 2 Kurdish municipal buildings

Police in the Kurdish province of Şırnak are setting up barricades and X-ray machines in and around the municipal buildings in two districts without the approval...

Turkish presidential official blacklists celebrities who supported opposition hashtag

Muhammet Safi, the head of the archives department at the Turkish presidency, on Tuesday tweeted a list targeting celebrities who supported an opposition hashtag after the cancelation...

Photo of woman in German language textbook doctored to include headscarf

The photo of an elderly woman in a German language textbook provided to students by the Turkish Education Ministry turns out to have been photoshopped to...

Former PM Davutoğlu expresses unease over cancellation of İstanbul election results

Former Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has voiced concern about a controversial decision by Turkey’s election authority to cancel the results of a mayoral election in...

CHP applies to election board for cancellation of June 24 elections

Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) applied to the Supreme Election Board (YSK) on Wednesday asking for cancellation of the general and presidential elections held...

Turkey’s election board rejects opposition request to cancel İstanbul poll results in their entirety

Turkey’s Supreme Election Board (YSK) has denied an application by the opposition to cancel the results and re-run all segments of the local İstanbul elections instead of...

Former President Gül expresses concerns over cancelation of İstanbul election

Turkey’s former President Abdullah Gül on Tuesday expressed concern over the election board’s announcement to re-run the İstanbul mayoral election, likening the ruling to a Constitutional...

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