Turkey’s interior minister, Süleyman Soylu, on
Thursday said the removal of three Kurdish mayors from office earlier this week
was a counterterrorism operation, the state-run Anadolu...
State Department Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus in a press briefing on Wednesday criticized Turkey’s action two days before in ousting three Kurdish mayors from office...
Turkish President Recep
Tayyip Erdoğan’s aide İbrahim Kalın has denied reports about government plans
to remove from office the İstanbul and Ankara mayors, who are both...
Six journalists in Mardin and Diyarbakır were taken
into police custody while following protests against the government removal of
three Kurdish mayors on Monday, according to...
