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Opposition mayor under investigation for insulting memory of Ottoman sultan

Turkey’s Interior Ministry has launched an investigation into the opposition mayor of the western city of İzmir on accusations that he insulted the Ottoman...

Turkey’s opposition parties against Erdoğan’s plan to simplify presidential elections

Leaders of opposition parties in Turkey have voiced objections to plans by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to amend the Constitution to make the election...

Main opposition leader says his party planing to take humanitarian aid to Palestine

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Özgür Özel said on Tuesday that his party had initiated diplomatic efforts to travel to Palestine at...

Erdoğan’s nationalist ally against easing absolute majority rule in presidential elections

The leader of a far-right party who is also an election ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has expressed his objection to Erdoğan’s plans...

Nationalist opposition in Turkey continues to bleed members after May election defeat

Turkey's nationalist opposition İYİ (Good) Party faces a growing exodus of members, highlighting internal fractures and challenges within the party in the aftermath of...

Turkey’s far-right party leader calls for closure of top court over judicial crisis

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s far-right ally, has called for either closure or restructuring of the country’s...

Erdoğan signals limiting top court’s power as he sides with appeals court in crisis

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is using a judicial crisis involving two high courts due to conflicting rulings on a jailed lawmaker to press...

Former Kurdish politician gets suspended sentence on terrorist propaganda charges

Emine Ayna, a former co-chair of the Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP), has been given a suspended sentence for disseminating terrorist propaganda in speeches...

Opposition MP joins ruling AKP after resigning from nationalist İYİ Party

A lawmaker has joined the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) days after resigning from the nationalist opposition İYİ (Good) Party, local media reported...

Erdoğan accuses new opposition leader of sympathizing with ‘terrorists’

In his first comments about Özgür Özel, the new leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accused him...

Erdoğan says Hamas militants not terrorists but ‘liberators’ fighting for their land

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said that Palestinian militant group Hamas, which staged a brazen attack in Israel on Oct. 7, is not...

Turkey’s nationalist opposition leader calls Netanyahu ‘war criminal, baby killer’

Meral Akşener, leader of the nationalist İYİ (Good) Party, lashed out at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the civilian deaths in the Palestinian...

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