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New İstanbul mayor promises transparency, pluralism after receiving mandate

Ekrem İmamoğlu, the opposition’s İstanbul mayoral candidate who was officially declared the new mayor of Turkey’s largest city on Wednesday, has vowed to conduct municipal affairs in...

Teacher who said ‘Don’t let children die’ on TV jailed again

Teacher Ayşe Çelik, who during a TV program in 2016 called for an end to clashes between Kurdish militants and Turkish security forces in Diyarbakır and...

Former head of university entrance exam center moved from jail to house arrest

The former head of Turkey’s Student Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM), Ali Demir, who was detained by police on April 8 due to alleged links to...

Former HSK general secretary given 15-year sentence over Gülen links

The Gaziantep 9th High Criminal Court on Wednesday handed down a 15-year sentence to Muzaffer Bayram, the former general secretary of Turkey’s Board of Judges and...

AKP executive says purge victims should not be allowed to vote

Ali İhsan Yavuz, the vice chairman of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), has claimed that people who have been removed from public jobs by...

Opposition’s İmamoğlu officially declared mayor of İstanbul

The opposition’s İstanbul mayoral candidate, Ekrem İmamoğlu, was on Wednesday officially declared the new mayor of Turkey’s largest city, after 17 days of objections and vote...

Minister Soylu told Fenerbahçe chair to warn İstanbul mayor-elect about attending football match

A Turkish columnist on Wednesday claimed Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu called Fenerbahçe football club chairman Ali Koç before a match on Sunday, saying he should warn...

AKP ally also applies to election board for new election in İstanbul

After Turkey’s ruling party submitted a petition for a new mayoral election to be held in İstanbul, its ally the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) on Wednesday...

Ankara police blacklist university students, seek their expulsion: report

The Ankara Police Department has blacklisted some university students who attended demonstrations or press statement releases in Ankara and asked their university administrations to expel them from...

New Diyarbakır mayor makes luxurious office of gov’t-appointed trustee public

Selçuk Mızraklı, the newly elected mayor of the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakır, on Tuesday revealed in video footage what a luxurious office a government trustee appointed...

HDP officially retakes Diyarbakır from government-appointed trustee

Adnan Selçuk Mızraklı has been certified as mayor of Diyarbakır, marking the end of a government-appointed trusteeship in the Kurdish city in effect since November 2016, Deutsche...

HDP politicians indicted by Turkish prosecutor for using ‘co-mayor’ title illegally

A Turkish prosecutor on Tuesday indicted former co-mayors of Van province from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) demanding between two and four years of imprisonment for...

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