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İstanbul city council slashes new mayor’s borrowing limit

İstanbul’s city council has downscaled a borrowing request made by newly elected Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, the Sözcü newspaper reported on Friday. The borrowing limit granted was TL 1.525...

Only 385 out of 2,504 mayoral candidates in Turkey’s local elections are women

There are only 385 female candidates out of 2,504 who will run in the local elections to be held in Turkey on March 31,...

CHP nominates İmamoğlu for İstanbul mayoral race in local elections

Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) on Tuesday announced the nomination of Ekrem İmamoğlu for the post of İstanbul mayor in local elections...

Demirtaş rules out running for mayor of Diyarbakır in local elections

Jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş, the former co-chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has said he does not have any intention of running...

Harsh media reaction to sexist voting comment prompts university dean to resign

A professor and the dean of the aviation and space sciences faculty at Turkey’s Necmettin Erbakan University resigned on Wednesday after his announcement that...

Drawing critical of Erdoğan censored in Germany upon request from Turkish consul

A drawing by Kurdish artist Ali Zülfikar critical of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been censored at an exhibition in the German city...

HDP deputy sentenced to two-and-a-half years for terrorist propaganda

The Gaziantep 2nd High Criminal Court on Tuesday sentenced Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Mahmut Toğrul to two years, six months’ imprisonment for disseminating...

MHP to announce former Ankara mayor as mayoral candidate in local elections: reports

The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) is preparing to announce Melih Gökçek, the former mayor of Turkey’s capital who had served in office for 23...

Turkey’s Ordu city mayor resigns after ruling AKP demands he step down

The mayor of the northern Turkish city of Ordu has resigned after reportedly rejecting a call from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP)...

Turkey criticizes Rotterdam mayor for permitting extremist protest at mosque

Turkey’s EU Affairs Minister Ömer Çelik on Wednesday lambasted Rotterdam Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb for granting permission to an extremist group to roast pigs in...

AKP mayor says defending secularism is supporting terrorism  

A district mayor from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Sakarya province has said there is no problem regarding the issue of...

4 including Mardin district mayor arrested on terrorism charges

Four people, including the Ömerli district mayor, in the southeastern province of Mardin who were recently detained in connection to an attack on the...

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