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İstanbul mayor faces new investigation over alleged procurement irregularities
Turkey’s Interior Ministry has launched a preliminary investigation into İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu on accusations that the state suffered financial loss due to the...
German police to detain Turks who entered Europe in passport scam
The German Federal Government has ordered the Federal Police to detain Turkish citizens who entered the country in September in an apparent scam using...
6 municipalities face inquiry for illegally helping people flee Turkey
Turkey’s Interior Ministry has announced that it has launched an inquiry into six municipalities for allegedly providing service passports to people who are not...
Audit reports revealing irregularities in AKP-run municipalities removed from website: report
The Turkish Court of Accounts has removed from its official website audit reports for the year 2019 that revealed irregularities in some of the...
İstanbul’s Princes’ Islands mayor reveals new plan to prohibit horse-drawn carriages
The municipality of İstanbul’s Princes’ Islands is
determined to completely prohibit horse-drawn carriages, or phaetons, as a new
deal with carriage operators is about to be...
Cumhuriyet report on banning access to news story also banned by court
A report by the Cumhuriyet daily on a court decision to ban access to a previous story on a corruption case involving ruling Justice...
Municipality prohibits horse-drawn carriages in Princes’ Islands
The İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality announced on Monday that they will prohibit horse-drawn carriages in the Princes’ Islands while introducing electric carriages instead, following President...
Trustee appointed to Bismil Municipality after detention warrant issued for co-mayor
The district governor of the Bismil district in southeastern Diyarbakır province was appointed as a trustee to the Municipality of Bismil in place of...
15 detained in anti-Gülen operation at İzmir Municipality
Fifteen people working for the İzmir Metropolitan Municipality were detained after police raided their homes on Monday morning on the grounds that they use...
Gov’t to appoint trustee to Diyarbakır Municipality to replace arrested co-mayors
The Justice and Development Party (AKP) is planning to appoint a trustee to the Diyarbakır Municipality, whose co-mayors were arrested on terrorism charges on...
Ankara slams US ambassador for statement on municipality takeover
The Turkish government has reacted harshly to a statement released by the US Embassy in Ankara on the appointment of trustees to municipalities in...
Erdoğan supports municipality step: Overdue
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday expressed support for the appointment of trustees to 28 municipalities, 24 of them run by pro-Kurdish parties, saying...