Turkish press regulator threatens opposition media outlets with closure amid protests
In a strongly worded statement at midnight on Saturday, Ebubekir Şahin, head of Turkey's media regulator Radio and Television Supreme ...
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Turkey: Kurdish cities protest trustee appointments, defy police blockades
Protests in Mardin (Mêrdîn) against the government’s appointment of a trustee to the Metropolitan Municipality entered their eighth day as ...
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Police violence in Turkey’s Kurdish cities as protesters resist government-appointed trustees
Protests intensified across Turkey’s Kurdish-majority cities of Mardin (Mêrdîn), Batman (Êlih), and Halfeti (Xelfetî) following the government’s controversial appointment of ...
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Kurdish mayors defy trustee appointments, call for resistance
In a defiant response to Turkey’s appointment of trustees in Kurdish-majority cities on 4 November, the ousted co-mayors of Batman ...
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DEM Party boycotts Turkish parliament to protest trustee appointments
Turkey's pro-Kurdish People's Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party announced a week-long parliamentary boycott, launching on Tuesday, to protest recent government-appointed ...
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Protests erupt in Turkey’s Kurdish majority southeast over trustee appointments
More than 90 people were detained in Turkey's Kurdish majority Mardin (Mêrdîn), Batman (Êlih), and Halfeti (Xelfetî) on Monday as ...
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