Turkey’s Interior Ministry on Thursday decided to remove from office the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-mayors of Elazığ’s Sarıcan district, according to the...
Turkey’s interior ministry on Friday removed five mayors from the Kurdish opposition party, Turkish media reported, bringing the total number of suspended Kurdish mayors...
Turkish
authorities detained the mayors of five municipalities in Kurdish-majority
areas on Monday as part of a widening government crackdown on the Kurdish
Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP),...
As part of an expanding crackdown on elected mayors from the Kurdish
Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), five HDP district co-mayors have been detained
in the eastern...
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...
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...
Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has targeted
İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu for a visit to Diyarbakır where he met with
Kurdish mayors who have been removed...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has signaled that more Kurdish
mayors will be removed from office, predicting that prosecutions will be
conducted based criminal charges, the Turkish...
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...
