Turkey removed four more mayors on Wednesday as part
of a widening government crackdown on the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party
(HDP), bringing to 20 the number...
As part of a widening
government crackdown on the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), the co-mayors
of İpekyolu in the eastern Turkish province of Van have...
Adnan Selçuk Mızraklı, the
former mayor of the predominantly Kurdish city of Diyarbakır, faces a jail
sentence of from seven to 15 years on charges of...
Nilüfer Elik Yılmaz, the mayor of a district in
Turkey’s Mardin province, has become the 15th Kurdish mayor to be
removed from office by the Interior...
Following the arrest of
former Diyarbakır Mayor Adnan Selçuk Mızraklı on Tuesday, Turkish courts have
ruled to arrest three more mayors from the Kurdish People’s Democratic...
Turkish police on
Monday detained four Kurdish mayors, including the chief executive of Turkey’s
largest predominantly Kurdish city of Diyarbakır, after first removing them
from office in...
Turkey replaced the mayors of a Kurdish-majority town
in its Southeast with a state official, the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party
(HDP) said, amid a crackdown at...
Sırrı Süreyya Önder, a former Peoples’ Democratic
Party (HDP) deputy who has been behind bars since late 2018, has been released
from prison following a decision...
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that there has
been a violation of the freedom of expression in the case of Sırrı Süreyya
Önder, a former Peoples’...
The Progressive Alliance, a German-based political
entity that includes more than 130 parties and organizations, will bestow its
“Award for Special Political Courage" for the year...
The release from a Turkish jail of the former leader
of the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) was blocked after a court on
Friday evening ordered...
The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has
launched a new terrorism investigation into Selahattin Demirtaş, a jailed Kurdish
politician, demanding the continuation of his incarceration, an...
