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A high criminal court on Wednesday ordered the arrest of Betül Yaşar, the suspended mayor of Diyadin in Turkey’s Ağrı province, the Diken news...

Turkey replaced the mayors of a Kurdish-majority town in its Southeast with a state official, the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) said, amid a crackdown at...

The district governor of the Bismil district in southeastern Diyarbakır province was appointed as a trustee to the Municipality of Bismil in place of...

Provincial governor Cemil Sarıoğlu has been appointed as a trustee to replace Burhan Kocaman, the mayor of Elazığ’s Karakoçan district who was elected on...

The heads of three neighborhoods (mukhtar) in the Bismil district of Diyarbakır province were replaced by trustees appointed by the district governor's office on...

Cumali Atilla, a trustee appointed by the government to administer the eastern province of Diyarbakır, fired actors employed by the municipal-funded city theater.The government...

Mardin's Kızıltepe District Governor Ahmet Odabaş has been appointed as trustee to the Kızıltepe Municipality to act in place of its co-mayors, who were...

Seferi Yılmaz, the Democratic Regions Party (DBP) co-mayor of the Şemdinli district in Turkey's southeastern province of Hakkari, was arrested on Monday on charges...

The new mayor of Van province, who was recently appointed by the Turkish government in place of the democratically elected pro-Kurdish mayor, has reportedly...

“We are seeing a terrible plunder like the one that created the Russian oligarchs,” Seyfettin Gürsel, a columnist and a professor of economics, has...

Deputy Governor Bilal Özkan, who replaced the mayor of Diyarbakır’s Sur district after the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government appointed trustees to run...