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Former Turkish PM Davutoğlu slams Erdoğan’s ruling party

A former prime minister and close ally of President Tayyip Erdoğan strongly criticized the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on Monday, blaming policy changes and an...

Let’s leave election debates behind, focus on economy, security: Erdoğan

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday said Turkey needs to leave election debates behind and focus on the country’s real agenda starting with the economy and...

MHP executive says CHP aims not to serve nation but to destroy one man rule, bring democracy

A top executive from Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has said the country’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) does not aim to serve the nation...

AKP executive says purge victims should not be allowed to vote

Ali İhsan Yavuz, the vice chairman of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), has claimed that people who have been removed from public jobs by...

CoE says Turkey not allowing elected mayors to take office undermines rule of law

Secretary-General of the Council of Europe (CoE) Thorbjørn Jagland has written a letter to the head of Turkey’s election authority telling him that prevention of democratically...

New Diyarbakır mayor makes luxurious office of gov’t-appointed trustee public

Selçuk Mızraklı, the newly elected mayor of the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakır, on Tuesday revealed in video footage what a luxurious office a government trustee appointed...

9 municipalities to be transferred from HDP to AKP after election authority denies mandate for purge victims

A decision by Turkey’s election authority this week requires that nine municipalities be handed over to runners-up from the ruling party instead of the elected opposition candidates...

HDP demonstrates against decision banning purge victim mayors from taking office

Members of Turkey's main Kurdish party, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), on Thursday held a demonstration in southeastern Turkey in protest of a decision by the...

Turkish police going door-to-door asking who residents voted for: opposition

As a controversy over the İstanbul mayoral election continues, the Turkish opposition has claimed that the police are going door-to-door in the Büyükçekmece district, asking residents who...

HDP mayor-elect not given mandate in Mardin due to AKP objection

Ahmet Türk and Figen Altındağ, who were elected as co-mayors of the southeastern Turkish city of Mardin last Sunday from the ranks of the Kurdish Peoples’...

Jailed Kurdish politician says election results a complete ‘fiasco’ for AKP gov’t

Jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş has said the results of the March 31 local elections turned out to be a complete “fiasco” for the ruling Justice...

Loser in local election seeks to oust mayor-elect purged teacher

Ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) mayoral candidate Hüseyin Beyoğlu has applied to the Supreme Election Board (YSK) for the mandate to govern, even though he...

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