Istanbul’s powerful mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, remained in police custody Thursday over graft and terror allegations after being held the day before, as his party called for more protests in Turkey’s largest city. Imamoglu is President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main political […]
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Istanbul’s powerful mayor Ekrem Imamoglu is President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s biggest political rival who has had hurdle after hurdle thrown at him to stop him making a bid for Turkey’s top job. After a sensational entry into politics in 2019
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Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), is “ready to make a call” to back a new initiative by the Turkish government to end decades of conflict, Turkey’s pro-Kurd party said Sunday. Two lawmakers from the
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A delegation from Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish DEM party is due on Saturday to visit jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is serving life on a prison island off Istanbul, a party source said. “The delegation left in the morning,” the
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