Tag: Trustee Appointment

The Turkish Interior Ministry has removed the elected co-mayor of the Kurdish-majority Kağızman (Qaxizman) municipality, Mehmet Alkan, from office and ...

Abdullah Zeydan, the co-mayor of Van (Wan) Metropolitan Municipality, was sentenced to prison and subsequently suspended from office by the ...

Opposition parties in Turkey staged a protest outside the Interior Ministry against the government's appointment of trustees to replace elected ...

“The continued disregard for democratic principles in Turkey should be taken seriously by all in the EU,” Nacho Sánchez Amor, ...

Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has launched a comprehensive 15-day protest campaign to challenge the government's appointment of ...

Opposition leader Özgür Özel condemned the Turkish government’s decision to replace elected Esenyurt Mayor Ahmet Özer with a government-appointed trustee ...

On 30 June, a major protest march from Istanbul to Hakkari (Colemêrg) will start, to demonstrate opposition to the appointment ...

Ercan Kanar, a prominent lawyer in Turkey, has criticised the appointment of trustees to local Kurdish administrations in place of ...

A delegation from the Council of Europe, led by Media Freedom Rapporteur Stefan Shennach, discussed pressing human rights issues with ...