A ninth mayor from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM party, the third largest in parliament, has been removed from office because of ...

Turkey on Saturday removed another elected pro-Kurdish provincial mayor over convictions on terrorism-related charges and appointed a state official in his place, the interior ministry said. The local ...

Prosecutors are investigating Omer Aras, head of Turkey’s largest business club, TUSIAD, after he suggested Turkey was 'demoralised' and that trust in the law risked collapsing.

The European Parliament has criticized Turkey's detention and removal of opposition mayors, demanding their release and ...

The European Parliament has condemned Turkish legal action against mayors from opposition parties, and called for municipal officials who have been detained in recent weeks to be released, acquitted ...

T URKEY’s TV stars do not have it easy. The global success of the country’s soap operas, episodes that last up to three hours ...

The Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM, formerly HDP, Turkey's is Turkey’s third-largest political party, and only DEM has the requisite number of seats in parliament (given the right ...

Ten officials were detained in Turkey over suspected links to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, expanding a crackdown on ...

The WSWS and the Socialist Equality Group, regardless of their political differences with the CHP and the DEM Party, oppose ...

Istanbul officials, including deputy mayors from opposition-run districts, were detained by Turkish police over alleged ties ...

Turkey's state-run news agency says police have detained 10 senior officials of district municipalities in Istanbul over their alleged links to Kurdish militants ...