Turkey’s Interior Ministry has announced that it has
lifted restrictions on 11,027 passports that were imposed during a two-year-long
state of emergency declared immediately after a...
Turkey in January detained 1,768 suspects over alleged
links to the faith-based Gülen movement, which is accused of orchestrating an
abortive putsch in 2016 despite its...
Turkey deported four extremists of French nationality
to France on Tuesday, the Interior Ministry announced, according to the
state-run Anadolu news agency.
They were deported as part...
The
Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) claimed on Sunday that humanitarian aid it sent
to Elazığ, struck by an earthquake on Friday, was blocked by authorities on
orders...
In
an ongoing crackdown on elected mayors from the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic
Party (HDP), two district co-mayors in the southeastern Turkish province of Muş
have been arrested...
Turkey has repatriated a total of 59 foreign Islamic
State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) suspects since Nov. 11, when Ankara started
sending foreign extremists...
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...
The
Turkish Ministry of Interior has announced in a statement that 41 former mayors
who were removed from office and replaced by government-appointed trustees
between July 2016...
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 police on Monday intervened with force in
demonstrations in several cities protesting a government decision to remove the
mayors of Diyarbakır, Mardin and Van, according...
Abdullah Ayaz, who
heads the Turkish Interior Ministry’s migration management department, has
denied reports about the deportation of some Syrians from Turkey, saying that
such an act...
