Members of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party organized the protests in Batman. While the protests ...

For the first time, a member of the main opposition CHP has been removed from office over ‘terrorism’ charges against them.

Hundreds of people have gathered in Istanbul to protest against the arrest and removal from office of a mayor from Turkey’s ...

This arrest and the appointment of a trustee to replace an elected mayor is a clear attack on basic democratic rights. The ...

The accusations against Ozer come just days after the PKK claimed responsibility for an attack on Turkish defense company ...

Turkish opposition parties protested Thursday against what they said was the politically-motivated arrest of an opposition ...

Ahmet Ozer, Esenyurt district mayor and member of Turkiye's main opposition party CHP, was detained for alleged links to the ...

State media say a mayor from Turkey’s main opposition party has been detained on suspicion of being a member of a banned Kurdish militant group ...

ISTANBUL - A mayor from Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) was arrested late on Wednesday after ...

Ahmet Özer, the mayor of Istanbul’s Esenyurt district and a member of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), was detained on ...

A mayor from Turkey's largest opposition party the Republican People's Party (CHP) has been arrested on terrorism charges and removed from office, the state news agency Anadolu reported on Thursday.

A deputy governor of Istanbul has replaced Ahmet Ozer as CHP mayor of Istanbul's immigrant-heavy Esenyurt district after he was accused on Wednesday by the chief prosecutor's office of being a member ...