Bar associations demand reversal of Turkey’s trustee appointments
Thirty-one bar associations in Turkey issued a joint statement on Saturday condemning the appointment of trustees to the municipalities of ...
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İstanbul Bar calls trustee appointments ‘unconstitutional exercise of state authority’
The İstanbul Bar Association has condemned the appointment of government trustees to replace elected mayors in Dersim and Ovacık municipalities, ...
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Turkish government’s latest trustee appointments condemned as ‘national will theft’
The Peoples' Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party has strongly condemned the Turkish government's decision to appoint trustees to the municipalities ...
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Turkish gov’t removes elected mayors from DEM and CHP in Kurdish-led municipalities
Trustees have been appointed to the Tunceli (Dêrsim) Municipality, led by the People's Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party, and the ...
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İstanbul Mayor İmamoğlu visits Mardin: Trustee appointments ‘a national embarrassment’
İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu visited Mardin (Mêrdîn) on Saturday, criticising the Turkish government's appointment of trustees in place of elected ...
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Deposed Co-Mayor Sönük of Batman, Turkey: “We will destroy the system of masculinity”
Co-Mayor of Batman (Êlih) Gülistan Sönük condemned the Turkish government's appointments of trustees replacing elected mayors in Kurdish-majority municipalities in ...
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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 ...
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Grassroots demonstrations erupt in Turkey as ‘trustees’ oust elected Kurdish mayors
The Turkish Interior Ministry's decision to appoint state trustees in municipalities held by the pro-Kurdish Peoples's Equality and Democracy (DEM) ...
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Kurdish elected mayor replaced by trustee for third time, lawyers condemn decision
Early on Monday, the Turkish Interior Ministry appointed trustees to the municipalities of Mardin (Mêrdîn), Batman (Êlih) and Halfeti (Xelfetî), ...
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Political backlash as Turkish government deposes elected DEM Party mayors
Political figures from various parties have strongly condemned the Turkish Interior Ministry's appointment of trustees to replace elected mayors in ...
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