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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Ahmet Ozer, mayor of Istanbul's Esenyurt district, was arrested over alleged PKK links, sparking opposition backlash. This comes amid peace efforts with Kurdish militants. The CHP claims the arrest is ...