Prominent Kurdish
politician Ahmet Türk, who was ousted from his position as co-mayor of the
Mardin Municipality in southeastern Turkey in August 2019, has been acquitted
of...
Turkey’s removal and arrest of multiple democratically
elected Kurdish mayors across southeastern Turkey violates voters’ rights,
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a press statement on...
Turkey’s
Interior Ministry appointed trustees to replace 32 elected Kurdish mayors in
2019, the Mezopotamya news agency reported on Wednesday, citing a report
drafted by the Peoples’...
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...
Veli Saçılık, a purged human rights defender, was allegedly subjected to excessive force on Thursday when he was taken into custody during a protest...
A trustee who was
appointed by Turkey’s Interior Ministry to replace the elected mayor of the
southeastern province of Diyarbakır has ordered a halt to news...
Two out of three mayors
in southeastern Turkey who were recently expelled from office by Turkey’s
Interior Ministry on the grounds that they have links to...
Three Kurdish mayors sacked by the Turkish government
this month over alleged links to militants on Thursday lambasted a
"political putsch" they vowed to challenge in...
One hundred eighty-four
intellectuals have released a joint statement denouncing the recent removal of
three Kurdish mayors from office by the Turkish government, the Artı Gerçek
news...
Turkey’s main opposition increased its support for a
Kurdish opposition party on Monday after three Kurdish mayors were dismissed by
the Turkish government last week over...
Police
in İzmir detained 26 lawyers and one journalist during a protest on Thursday
over the removal of recently elected Kurdish mayors from office, the
Mezopotamya news...
