Turkish business leaders face legal scrutiny over government criticism
TÜSİAD (Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association) executives Orhan Turan and Ömer Arif Aras were released on Wednesday evening under judicial ...
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Kurdish MP condemns Turkey’s trustee appointments as continuation of century of oppression of Kurds
In a recent address to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party parliamentary group ...
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Turkish authorities remove joint mayors in Van’s Bahçesaray municipality raid
On 29 November, Ayvaz Hazır, the joint mayor of Bahçesaray (Miks) in Van (Wan), Turkey, was sentenced to three years ...
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Paris City Council demands release of detained Kurdish mayors in Turkey
Paris City Council demands release of detained Kurdish mayors in Turkey 🔷Paris Councillor Geneviève Garrigos on Turkey's policy of replacing ...
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Eight years of neglect: Kurdish mayor exposes legacy of state trustees in Diyarbakır
Kurdish politician Ayşe Serra Bucak, co-mayor of Diyarbakır (Amed), says that she needs to be prepared for arrest at any ...
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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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Turkey’s Kurdish protests spotlight opposition unity against trustee appointments
Turkey’s replacement of elected mayors in Kurdish-majority municipalities with government-appointed trustees has triggered mass protests across the country, uniting diverse ...
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Water cannon in Dersim and water war in Syria – a weekly news review
Sarah Glynn As I write this on Friday night, thousands of people are on the streets of Tunceli (Dersim) protesting ...
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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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