Turkey politics

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Former MHP deputy slams Turkish parliament speaker for degrading remark

July 11, 2017

Former Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) deputy and leadership candidate MeralAkşener has strongly criticized Turkish Parliament Speaker İsmail Kahraman for referring to her by the...

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Demirtaş ‘repays’ Erdoğan for terrorist remarks

July 10, 2017

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chairperson Selahattin Demirtaş has said he is “repaying” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for his accusation that he is a...

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Demirtaş: Referendum results would be different if we weren’t in prison

June 18, 2017

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chairperson Selahattin Demirtaş, who has been jailed since November 2016, has said the results of a recent referendum in...

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HDP starts sit-in at Constitutional Court

June 16, 2017

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputies have started a sit-in at the Constitutional Court building in Ankara protesting the arrest of its deputies, the...

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Ankara mayor calls CHP’s ‘March of Justice’ a second coup attempt

June 15, 2017

Ankara Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Melih Gökçek said on Thursday that a “March of Justice” started by the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) could...

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CHP leader asks party to prepare alternate report on Turkey’s failed coup

June 2, 2017

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has asked his party to draft an alternate report investigating a failed coup that took...

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Detention warrant issued for another HDP deputy

February 17, 2017

As a court in Diyarbakır was issuing an arrest warrant for pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy İdris Baluken, who was recently released from...

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