Turkey: Kurdish cities protest trustee appointments, defy police blockades
Protests in Mardin (Mêrdîn) against the government’s appointment of a trustee to the Metropolitan Municipality entered their eighth day as ...
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Turkey’s main opposition leader Özel denounces Erdoğan’s trustee policy as ‘hypocrisy’
Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Özgür Özel delivered a blistering critique of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s policy of ...
Turkey’s far-right government partner defends trusteeships, criticises CHP, DEM Party
Devlet Bahçeli, leader of Turkey’s far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), voiced support on Tuesday for the government’s recent appointment of ...
Turkey: Mass protests continue against government’s replacement of elected officials with trustees
Mass demonstrations against Turkish government's replacement of elected Kurdish officials with state-appointed trustees continued across multiple cities, with the authorities ...
KDP closes HDP office in Iraqi Kurdistan as trusteeship imposed in Turkey’s Kurdish majority cities
After five years of established presence, the office of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in Erbil (Hewlêr) was forcibly closed ...
Masked figures reappear in Batman as protests over trustee appointments intensify, echoing the dirty war years of the 90s
Amid ongoing protests against the appointment of government trustees, masked individuals claiming to be police officers reportedly attempted to detain ...
Kurdish-majority cities rise up against trustee policies in Turkey
The Peoples' Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party has reported widespread protests in the Kurdish regions of Turkey against the recent ...
Kurdish journalist describes police violence during trustee protests in Turkey
Journalist Pelşin Çetinkaya was detained and subjected to police violence while covering protests in Batman (Êlih), Turkey, against government-appointed municipal ...
HRW: Over half a million voters lose elected mayors in Turkey amid trustee appointments
The Erdoğan government’s removal of five democratically elected mayors and dissolution of municipal councils constitutes a “significant blow to Turkey’s ...
DEM Party deputy Ömer Öcalan criticises trustee appointment in Halfeti
Recent developments in Turkey's approach to the Kurdish issue have raised fundamental questions about the course of democratic politics and ...
