Turkey arrests opposition mayor over alleged tender-rigging, state media says
A Turkish court formally arrested an Istanbul district mayor from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) over alleged tender-rigging, state-owned Anadolu news agency said on Tuesday, amid ...
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Turkey’s Erdoğan tries to sink popular rival in flood of court battles
Popular Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu is seen by many as a likely next president — as long as Erdoğan’s authorities don’t ...
Abdullah Ocalan: who is Kurdish militant chief urging peace with Turkey?
The 75-year-old militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has spent a quarter of a century in jail after leading his Kurdistan Workers ...
Turkey peace call may boost Erdogan's domestic and Syria goals
Tayyip Erdogan's long-held goal of ending Turkey's conflict with Kurdish militants is a step closer after their jailed ...
Turkey’s Erdogan makes risky bet on peace with Kurds
Making peace with the PKK could also lead to a big advance in Erdogan’s mission to stabilise Syria under a friendly new ...
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Turkey’s top appeals court upholds jail term for prominent opposition figure
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Turkey's 'babyfaced' fraud suspect in jail after three years on run
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PKK declares ceasefire in Turkey ending years of bloodshed
The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militia declared an immediate ceasefire in Turkey following jailed leader Abdullah ...
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Jailed PKK leader Ocalan expected to call for peace with Turkey
A delegation from Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM party met with Ocalan at his ... Ocalan has been serving a life jail term without parole on Imrali island since his arrest in Nairobi in February 1999. Since ...
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Turkey Sex Cult Chief Sentenced to More Than 1,000 Years in Jail
(Bloomberg) -- A Turkish Islamic televangelist was sentenced to 1,075 years in jail on Monday for running ... He became well-known in Turkey over the years, especially for provocative TV shows ...
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Turkey: Journalists face jail for revealing Isis backing
TWO TURKISH journalists could face jail for exposing government arms smuggling to Islamic State (Isis). Turkish media reported yesterday that state prosecutor Irfan Fidan requested arrest warrants for ...
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Jailed Kurdish leader issues call to lay down arms
He said the movement - banned as a terrorist group in Turkey, the EU ... politicians have been targeted by a wave of arrests and jail sentences in recent years. Last year the two leaders of ...