Two out of three mayors
in southeastern Turkey who were recently expelled from office by Turkey’s
Interior Ministry on the grounds that they have links to...
The Ankara 19th High Criminal Court on
Monday ruled to release jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş pending
trial, but he was not allowed to leave prison...
On the 10th day of his
controversial appointment by the Turkish government as trustee of the
southeastern Turkish city of Mardin, Mustafa Yaman, the province’s former
governor,...
Three Kurdish mayors sacked by the Turkish government
this month over alleged links to militants on Thursday lambasted a
"political putsch" they vowed to challenge in...
Former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu on Friday
sparked a debate on Turkey’s bloodiest summer, between June and November 2015,
which saw successive terrorist attacks, saying that...
Turkey’s interior minister, Süleyman Soylu, on
Thursday said the removal of three Kurdish mayors from office earlier this week
was a counterterrorism operation, the state-run Anadolu...
Turkish President Recep
Tayyip Erdoğan’s aide İbrahim Kalın has denied reports about government plans
to remove from office the İstanbul and Ankara mayors, who are both...
Kurdish Peoples’
Democracy Party (HDP) Co-chairperson Pervin Buldan has called on political
parties in the Turkish parliament, other than the ruling Justice and
Development Party (AKP) and...
Anders Knape, president
of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, on
Tuesday expressed grave concern about the removal of three...
Mehmet Emin Bilmez ,
the former governor of the eastern Turkish province of Van who was appointed on
Monday as trustee for the Van Municipality after...
Kurdish politicians Ferhat Kut and Leyla Bozkurt along
with four others were detained on Wednesday on accusations of membership in a
terrorist group, the Diken news...
A Turkish court has
refused to release a young mother who is in prison with her one-and-a-half-year-old
baby in southeastern Turkey although the baby has a...
