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Cuts to municipal budget by the president would be unconstitutional: İmamoğlu

Ekrem İmamoğlu, the unofficial winner of İstanbul’s mayoral election on Sunday, said in an interview with the Euronews Turkish website that the constitution does not give President...

Opposition deputy submits parliamentary inquiry about AA election coverage

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Utku Çakırözer has questioned in a parliamentary inquiry a recent controversy surrounding Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency (AA) on the...

Top court rules rights of former general tried on coup charges were violated

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled in favor of former retired Gen. Çetin Doğan, who stood trial on coup charges, saying Doğan’s rights had been violated, the...

Opposition nominees are lame ducks, Erdoğan tells supporters at İstanbul mosque

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has told a group of supporters at a mosque in İstanbul that opposition nominees who won office in Sunday’s local elections are...

Turkey’s municipal tenders to be subject to presidential approval, columnist claims

The Turkish government is preparing to pass legislation that will put municipal tenders in excess of a certain amount subject to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s approval, Sözcü...

Turkey orders detention of 20 gendarmes over Gülen links

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s office on Tuesday issued detention warrants for 20 gendarmes as part of an investigation into the faith-based Gülen movement, the state-run...

6 journalists given suspended sentences for ‘terrorist propaganda’

Six Turkish journalists were given 15-month suspended sentences on Wednesday on charges of disseminating terrorist propaganda while serving as the symbolic editor-in-chief for a day of...

Only 2.66 pct of Turkey’s mayors-elect are women

Turkey elected 1,389 mayors in towns, districts and cities in Sunday’s local elections, but only 2.66 percent of them, or 37, were women, a Turkish research...

Turkey’s election board rules to recount votes in 7 İstanbul districts

Turkey's Supreme Election Board (YSK) decided early Wednesday that votes would be recounted in seven districts of İstanbul following Sunday’s local elections, the state-run Anadolu news...

Woman defeats former boss in mayoral election after he demoted her

A former municipal employee in the northwestern province of Bilecik who ran for mayor as an independent candidate after resigning due to unfair treatment in the...

Opposition candidate demands mandate for İstanbul

Turkey’s main opposition candidate in İstanbul called on the Supreme Election Board (YSK) on Wednesday to mandate him as the elected mayor, after the ruling Justice...

Yet another jailed hunger striker takes own life in protest of Öcalan’s ‘isolation’

A jailed man who went on a hunger strike on March 1 in protest of the “isolation” of imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’...

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