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Another CHP mayor detained in western Turkey as crackdown on opposition escalates

Turkish gendarmes on Tuesday detained the mayor of İzmir’s Güzelbahçe district and four other people as part of an investigation into alleged corruption and...

Turkish police fire tear gas to break up protest called by ousted CHP leader in İzmir

Riot police in Turkey fired tear gas and used water cannon to break up a rally called by ousted opposition leader Özgür Özel Tuesday,...

Unpaid loans sent to debt collectors jump 68 percent in Turkey in a year

The amount of unpaid loans being handled by Turkey’s debt collection companies rose 68 percent in a year to 132 billion lira, a sign...

9 CHP members arrested in probe linked to annulled party congress

Nine members of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) have been arrested in an investigation into alleged irregularities at the party’s 2023 congress,...

Jailed İstanbul mayor blames Erdoğan for CHP takeover, calls former party leader a ‘puppet’

Jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu on Sunday accused President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of being behind the court-ordered takeover of Turkey’s main opposition party and...

Turkey’s top court annuls digital search law over privacy safeguards

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has annulled a criminal procedure law that allowed judges to authorize searches and the copying and seizing of suspects’ computers and...

Öcalan warns Turkey peace process needs legal framework, says ‘no time to lose’

Jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) founder Abdullah Öcalan warned Monday against delaying legal steps to advance a peace process with Turkey, saying continued uncertainty...

Erdoğan reverses order to close liberal İstanbul university after protests

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday reversed his decision to close a liberal private university in İstanbul after protests by students and faculty...

Turkish riot police use tear gas to enter CHP headquarters

Hundreds of Turkish riot police used tear gas and forced their way into the Ankara headquarters of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP)...

Human Rights Watch says Turkey damaging democracy as CHP members detained

Human Rights Watch said on Saturday that the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was undermining democracy through “abusive tactics” against the main...

13 delegates of main opposition CHP detained after court voids party congress

Turkish authorities detained 13 delegates from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) after a court declared the party’s 2023 leadership congress legally void,...

Court orders 5 jailed pending trial in general’s son’s alleged murder amid cover-up claims

A Turkish court has ordered five construction site workers jailed pending trial eight years after the death of a retired major general’s son, whose...

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