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Turkey’s election board removes 13 election officials, citing irregularities

Turkey’s Supreme Election Board (YSK) has removed from their posts and launched an investigation into 13 election officials over their alleged responsibility for irregularities detected in...

Governor threatens to intervene in opposition rally, İmamoğlu claims

Opposition mayoral candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu has claimed that the governor of Ordu requested that he cut short a rally in the province and threatened to step...

Turkish singer investigated for dedicating song to 13-year-old Gezi Park victim

Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into Turkish singer Alpay after he at a concert commemorated a 13-year-old boy who was killed by the police during the...

Ruling party candidate agrees to debate İmamoğlu on TV

Ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) İstanbul mayoral candidate Binali Yıldırım has announced that he agrees in principle to face his rival, Ekrem İmamoğlu, in a televised...

Flyers claiming exorbitant municipal spending considered ‘insult to president’

Turkish police intervened in a political gathering in İstanbul on Sunday and confiscated flyers about allegedly extravagant spending in the İstanbul Municipality, saying they constitute the crime...

Turkey detains 17 people with alleged Gülen ties on their way to Greece

Turkish police on Saturday detained 17 people who were on their way to Greece fleeing a post-coup crackdown targeting followers of the faith-based Gülen movement, the...

Some 15 percent of Turkish population subjected to prosecution in 2018

Over 13 million Turkish citizens, roughly 15 percent of the entire population, were the subjects of prosecution in 2018, amounting to an increase of 5 million...

Turkey detains some 27,000 irregular migrants in May: report

A total of 27,536 undocumented migrants and 561 human smuggling suspects were detained across Turkey in May, the country’s deputy interior minister has said, according to...

Former Turkish PM Davutoğlu openly hints at rumored new party

Former Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu on Sunday publicly signaled the establishment of a new political party, the Cumhuriyet newspaper reported. In a speech at a fast-breaking dinner...

Local re-run elections change 2 out of 4 Turkish districts mayors

Local re-run elections on Sunday reversed the outcome of the March 31 elections in two out of four provinces, the Hürriyet Daily News reported. The March 31...

CHP deputy questions vice president about allegations of torture of former diplomats

Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy and prominent human rights activist Sezgin Tanrıkulu in a parliamentary question asked Turkey’s vice president about allegations of torture perpetrated on former...

Polling station officials under investigation will serve again on June 23, says election authority

Turkey’s Supreme Election Board (YSK) has announced that polling station chairs and officials who are under investigation by the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on accusations of...

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