Nearly 1,900 detained as Turkey protests İstanbul mayor’s arrest for eighth night
Protests across Turkey entered their ninth day following the detention of İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu on 19 March, jailed on ...
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Turkish Interior Ministry suspends İmamoğlu as Mayor of Istanbul
Turkey's Interior Ministry announced in a press statement on Sunday evening that Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu has been ...
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Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu remanded in custody, sparking outrage
The opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Mayor of Istanbul Ekrem İmamoğlu has been remanded in custody in Istanbul, after he ...
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Dersim co-mayor, Ovacık mayor sentenced to prison
Tunceli (Dersim) Co-mayor Cevdet Konak, of the Peoples' Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party, and the Republican People's Party (CHP)-affiliated mayor ...
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Turkey’s shocking role in New York Mayor’s corruption case revealed
Matt Broomfield Turkish efforts to influence the US political system through corrupt and illegal means are once again in the ...
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Kurdish former mayor Mukaddes Kubilay released from Turkish prison
Mukaddes Kubilay, former Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) mayor of Doğubeyazıt (Bazîd) and co-mayor of Ağrı (Agirî), has been released from ...
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Kurdistan National Congress calls international community to act against actions of Turkey’s AKP
Memet Sıddık Akış, the democratically elected Kurdish Co-mayor of Hakkari (Colemêrg), was detained by Turkish authorities on 3 June and ...
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