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 ...

The dismissal of mayors in Mardin, Batman and Halfeti follows overtures by the government towards jailed PKK leader Abdullah ...

Turkey on Monday sacked three mayors facing terrorism charges in the Kurdish-majority southeast and replaced them with ...

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

The Interior Ministry appointed trustees on Monday after it sacked three mayors in eastern Türkiye for convictions of ...

Marc Cools, President of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, has made the following ...

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

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday sued the main opposition leader and Istanbul's powerful mayor over ...

Ahmet Özer, the mayor of Istanbul’s Esenyurt district and a member of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), was detained on Wednesday by anti-terrorist police over his alleged connection 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.