Turkey’s opposition mobilises for Esenyurt Square rally against trustee appointment
Turkey’s opposition is calling for a rally at Esenyurt Square to protest the government’s appointment of a trustee following the ...
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‘Attack on democracy’: Turkey’s opposition mobilises against government’s takeover of Kurdish-led district
Turkey's Ministry of Interior has appointed İstanbul Deputy Governor Can Aksoy as trustee to Esenyurt Municipality following the arrest and ...
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Turkey’s main opposition CHP protests possible government takeover in İstanbul district municipality
Ahmet Özer, mayor of İstanbul’s Esenyurt district, was detained early on Wednesday over alleged links to the Kurdistan Communities Union ...
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Detention of Esenyurt Mayor Ahmet Özer sparks political outcry
Ahmet Özer, the mayor of İstanbul's Esenyurt district and a prominent figure within Turkey’s main opposition, the Republican People’s Party ...
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Turkey launches fresh investigation against journalists
Kurdish press workers Mehmet Aslan and Erdoğan Alayumat, arrested in a series of raids by Turkish police and accused of ...
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Two arrests, one at large after armed attack on DEM Party building
The Turkish police arrested two individuals on Sunday in connection with an armed attack on the Sultangazi district office of ...
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DEM Party in Turkey, PUK in Iraqi Kurdistan attacked, raising suspicions of coordinated actions by Turkey
The İstanbul office of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party and the Duhok office of Iraqi-Kurdish Patriotic Union ...
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Families of the disappeared demand justice in cities across Turkey
Families of the disappeared and human rights defenders staged protests in five cities across Turkey on Saturday, demanding justice for ...
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Witness claims 1955 Istanbul pogrom was state-sponsored
Feridun Dörtler, a witness to the 6-7 September 1955 pogrom in Istanbul, has claimed that the attacks on non-Muslims were ...
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Man fatally stabbed for speaking Kurdish in İstanbul
A man was stabbed to death in İstanbul on Saturday, reportedly for speaking Kurdish in public. The attack occurred in ...
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