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Successor says Erdoğan left $1.5 million municipal debt behind as İstanbul mayor

Ali Müfit Gürtuna, a former mayor of İstanbul, has said he took over the municipality from his predecessor and current president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...

Erdoğan to target opposition municipalities with debt collection

Amid fears that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan might take measures and exert financial pressure on opposition-run municipalities to prevent them from providing municipal services...

Nationalist İYİ Party left with 32 seats in parliament after exodus of MPs

The nationalist opposition İYİ (Good) Party has been left with 32 seats in the Turkish parliament  after 11 lawmakers from the party resigned mainly...

Far-right Erdoğan ally accuses main opposition of ‘jeopardizing national security’

Far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli, an ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on Tuesday accused the main opposition Republican People's...

Turkey’s MHP targets 154 people for defaming party over murder of nationalist figure

The far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has accused 154 people of defaming the party over the murder of a former leader of the Grey...

Former interior minister Soylu dismisses rumors of challenging Erdoğan with new party

Süleyman Soylu, the former interior minister who is currently a lawmaker from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), dismissed rumors of plans to...

Turkey’s DEM Party challenges removal of its mayor in court

The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) has filed a petition at the Ankara Administrative Court requesting a stay in the removal...

Former AKP mayor of Kurdish city arrested on bribery charges

A former mayor from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) who replaced a democratically elected district mayor in Turkey's predominantly Kurdish southeast in...

AKP MP plans to visit Kavala, links Turkey’s economic woes to his ongoing imprisonment

A nationalist-leaning lawmaker from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is planning to visit jailed businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala, arguing that the...

Turkey’s main opposition loses voters as support for AKP on the rise: poll

The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), which emerged victorious from the latest municipal elections, relegating the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to...

Turkey’s main opposition leader hopes to meet with Assad to discuss refugee problem

Amid ongoing tensions in Turkey over Syrian refugees, the leader of Turkey’s main opposition party has said he is hoping to have an official...

Founding member resigns from nationalist İYİ Party, slams ex-leader

Koray Aydın, one of the founders of the nationalist İYİ (Good) Party, has announced his resignation from the party, harshly criticizing İYİ's former leader...

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