Turkey on Monday sacked three mayors in the Kurdish-majority southeast on alleged "terrorism" charges, despite Ankara's ...

Turkey on Monday sacked three mayors in the Kurdish-majority southeast on alleged "terrorism" charges, despite Ankara's ...

After the government removed three mayors from the pro-Kurdish DEM Party due to alleged terror ties, the DEM Party and other opposition parties accused it of 'stealing municipalities it could not win ...

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

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

The Turkish government stripped three elected pro-Kurdish mayors of their posts in southeastern cities on Monday and replaced them with state officials, citing charges on terrorism-related offences.

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

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 ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Hundreds gathered Thursday in Istanbul to protest against the arrest and removal from office of a mayor from ...

Protesters gathered in Istanbul's Esenyurt district to oppose the arrest of Mayor Ahmet Ozer, a member of the Republican People's Party, for alleged links to the PKK. Accusations against opposition ...

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

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