Ousted Kurdish mayors urge Europe to condemn Turkey crackdown
Dismissed Kurdish mayors in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority eastern city of Van (Wan) urged a visiting delegation from the Council of Europe ...
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Turkish opposition leader calls for end to state-appointed trustees in Kurdish cities
The leader of Turkey’s main opposition party has called for urgent reforms in parliament to end the practice of appointing ...
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Van Newroz calls for free leadership and a democratic society
Newroz celebrations took place across southeast Turkey’s Kurdish region (Bakur) under the leadership of the Democratic Regions Party (DBP), the ...
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Kurdish MP questions peace prospects as Turkey’s trustee policy deepens
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party MP Sırrı Sakık has questioned the possibility of peace in Turkey while the ...
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Turkey removes Van’s elected mayors, fuelling fears over democracy
Turkish authorities have ousted the elected co-mayors of Van (Wan) Metropolitan Municipality, Abdullah Zeydan and Neslihan Şedal, replacing them with ...
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Council of Europe condemns Turkey’s dismissal of Van Mayor
Council of Europe's Congress of Local and Regional Authorities has condemned the Turkish government's dismissal of Van (Wan) Mayor Abdullah ...
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Protests in Van intensify over Turkey’s mayoral trustee appointment
Protests in Van (Wan), a Kurdish-majority city in eastern Turkey, have escalated after the government removed elected mayor Abdullah Zeydan ...
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Van’s defiant resistance challenges Turkey’s ongoing trustee policy
Protests in Van (Wan) have intensified following the Turkish government's decision to appoint a trustee to replace the elected mayor, ...
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Police raid on Van Metropolitan Municipality, followed by appointment of trustee
Abdullah Zeydan, the co-mayor of Van (Wan) Metropolitan Municipality, was sentenced to prison and subsequently suspended from office by the ...
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Protests erupt in Kurdish city Van following trustee appointment to metropolitan municipality
Protests have broken out across the Kurdish-majority city Van (Wan) following the Turkish government’s appointment of a trustee to the ...
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