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Kurds cautiously optimistic about PKK’s ceasefire with Turkey
For more than 40 years, the Turkish government has fought the PKK in eastern Turkey, northern Iraq and Syria. Recent efforts ...
Cyprus Mail on MSN2d
Pro-Kurdish party says Turkey vague on peace steps after PKK pledge
Turkey's pro-Kurdish party said that President Tayyip Erdogan's ruling alliance had offered no clear steps during closed-door ...
Arrested and stripped of degree: Twin moves to bar Istanbul mayor from ballot suggests Turkey’s Erdogan is really worried this time
Long-serving, autocratic-leaning Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is seeking to extend his tenure beyond ...
What we know about Istanbul’s mayor and why he was arrested
Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul and a popular figure, had boasted jokingly that he was the only person to have beaten ...
İstanbul mayor İmamoğlu in custody: What lies behind Turkey’s drift into a dictatorial regime?
The detention of Ä°mamoglu, Erdogan's main political opponent, marks a new stage in Turkey's descent into dictatorship under ...
Police arrest Istanbul mayor over alleged corruption and terror links
Turkish police have arrested Istanbul’s mayor — a key rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — as part of an investigation ...
Bloomberg L.P.3d
Turkey’s Erdogan Seeks White House Meeting With Trump in April
Erdogan sees the strengthening of a strategic partnership between Ankara and Washington as critical for regional stability as Turkey looks to become a prominent power broker on issues from Ukraine ...
Stars and Stripes6d
Turkey says it will closely monitor a Syrian government deal with a Kurdish armed group
ISTANBUL — Turkey’s foreign minister said Friday that Ankara is closely monitoring an agreement between the Syrian government and a U.S-backed Kurdish-led armed group, expressing concern over ...
Sky4d
Abolished indefinite prison sentences still in place - despite prisoner numbers approaching pre-release scheme levels
This week government figures are likely to show the prison population back to where it was before the last early release scheme. But even though hundreds of prisoners have served only 40% of ...