Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has prohibited mayors from meeting with diplomats face-to-face or speaking over the phone with them without permission...
The Turkish Constitutional Court has found no violation of rights in the cases of two former mayors from pro-Kurdish parties in Turkey’s southeastern Diyarbakır...
Turkey’s main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) was accused of hypocrisy for its support of the Turkish government’s practice of removing mayors –- mostly...
The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe (CoE) has adopted a recommendation and resolution on the situation of mayors...
Two mayors from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) who were recently convicted of rigging tenders recently paid a visit to Turkish Interior...
Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has claimed that phones of mayors from his party are being illegally wiretapped by...
Ankara has ousted 151 mayors from office on accusations of terrorism in the last six years, replacing them with government-appointed bureaucrats, Turkey's Interior Ministry...
Turkish President Recep
Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday met with 29 metropolitan mayors at his presidential
palace in Ankara and asked them not to look for the...
Fatih Tezcan, a well-known troll for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, claimed in a web broadcast that two pro-government columnists, Hadi Özışık and Süleyman...
Governors and local mayors of Gaziantep, Şanlıurfa and Diyarbakır provinces did not show up for scheduled appointments with Linda Stuart Specht, the US consul...
