Pro-Kurdish co-mayor demolishes wall around municipal building
Nilufer Elik Yilmaz, co-mayor of the Kızıltepe district, from the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP), has…
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Latest polls “a humiliating defeat” for Erdogan
Turkey’s recent local government elections that resulted in the governing party losing control of several major…
Election authority rejects pro-Kurdish HDP’s re-run demand in five…
Turkey’s top election authority has rejected an extraordinary appeal by the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party…
Pro-Kurdish HDP congratulates Istanbul mayor for receiving official mandate
Pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) has congratulated Ekrem Imamoglu, the main opposition party mayor-elect…
Kurdish family raise complaint of extrajudicial killing by police
A criminal complaint has been lodged against police filed for killing a Kurdish man in what is suspected to be an…
Acquittal of nine Ceylanpinar murder suspects upheld
A Turkish Higher Court on Tuesday upheld the acquittal verdicts given to the nine suspects in the controversial…
Pro-Kurdish Mayor-elects receive mandate in Sur district
Elected co-mayors from the opposition pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP), Feyme Filiz Buluttekin and Cemal…
Pro-Kurdish opposition HDP seeks re-run, as election board does not issue…
The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) said on Thursday it will submit an extraordinary appeal to the…
Election board harsly criticized for not giving mandate to mayor-elects
Turkish opposition figures have come out guns blazing on Thursday, protesting against a decision by the Supreme…
YSK rules people dismissed by emergency decrees cannot serve as mayors
The Supreme Electoral Council (YSK) has ruled that mayor-elects of the March 31 local election who were previously…