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Erdogan and Pro-Kurdish MPs Meet in 'New Phase' of Rapprochement

This is Beirut, 07/07 17:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met lawmakers from the pro-Kurdish DEM party Monday to discuss the next steps after PKK militants agreed to end their decades-long insurgency. DEM, Turkey's third-biggest party, has played a key role in facilitating an emerging peace deal between the government and jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan, whose ...

Three More Turkish Opposition Mayors Arrested in Graft Probe Amid CHP Crackdown

This is Beirut, 05/07 13:06 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Turkey arrested three more opposition mayors early on Saturday as part of an investigation into alleged graft, officials from the main opposition CHP said, denouncing it as a "political operation." The early morning arrests were the latest move targeting elected officials of the Republican People's Party (CHP) as the government of ...

Turkey Arrests Five Mayors From Main Opposition Party

This is Beirut, 04/06 13:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Turkish police arrested five opposition mayors early Wednesday alongside 17 others as part of a probe into corruption allegations at CHP-held municipalities, a party spokesman told AFP. The latest arrests targeted a former lawmaker and three CHP mayors in Istanbul, and two more in the southern province of Adana, the spokesman said. The latest ...

Istanbul Mayor's Staff Targeted by Dozens of Arrest Warrants

This is Beirut, 31/05 12:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Turkish authorities have issued 47 arrest warrants for municipal officials and staff across Istanbul, whose mayor—the main political rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan—has been jailed since March, the state news agency Anadolu reported on Saturday. The warrants were based on "four separate corruption investigations centered ...

Ukraine-Russia Peace Talks in Turkey: What we Know

This is Beirut, 16/05 10:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Ukraine and Russia plan on Friday in Istanbul to hold their first direct peace talks in more than three years. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky had travelled to Turkey but said he would not attend the talks, after his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin declined his calls for face-to-face negotiations. Tens of thousands have been killed ...

Erdogan Says Efforts to End Ukraine War at 'Turning Point'

This is Beirut, 11/05 14:42 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday told Russian and French leaders that a "historic turning point" has been reached in efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war and that Ankara was ready to host talks between the two warring parties, his office said. NATO member Turkey has sought to maintain good relations with both of its ...

Syria Local Govt says Israeli Bombardment kills Nine

This is Beirut, 03/04 10:02 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Israeli bombardment killed nine people in Syria as troops conducted a raid in the south, the local government and a war monitor said, with the Israeli army saying its forces were responding to fire from militants. The shelling came after an "Israeli incursion", with "the occupation forces advancing for the first time to this ...

Turkey Detains 1,100 People Since Erdogan Rival's Arrest

This is Beirut, 24/03 15:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Turkey Arrests Recep Tayyip Erdogan Ekrem Imamoglu

Turkish police have detained more than 1,100 people, including journalists, since the arrest of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's main rival sparked the country's worst unrest in years, a minister said on Monday. The demonstrations began in Istanbul after Ekrem Imamoglu's arrest last week and have since spread to more than 55 of Turkey's 81 ...

Istanbul mayor's lawyers vow to appeal court's arrest decision

This is Beirut, 23/03 12:34 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu's legal team will appeal a court decision Sunday that formalized the key opposition figure's arrest in a graft probe, one of the lawyers told AFP. Separately, the court decided against formalizing his arrest in a "terror" probe. Imamoglu's detention on Wednesday over both investigations has ...

Turkey Braces for Fourth Night of Protest as Mayor Arrives in Court

This is Beirut, 22/03 19:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Huge crowds gathered outside Istanbul City Hall late Saturday for a fourth night of protests over the arrest of Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who has blasted official allegations against him as "immoral and baseless". The demonstrations, which began in Istanbul on Wednesday, have since spread to more than 55 of Turkey's 81 provinces, ...

Istanbul's Mayor Remains Under Arrest, New Rally Called

This is Beirut, 20/03 10:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Istanbul's powerful mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, remained in police custody Thursday over graft and terror allegations after his arrest the day before, as his party called for more protests in Turkey's largest city. Imamoglu of the main opposition CHP is President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival and his detention came just days before the ...

Erdogan Says Syria's Agreement with Kurds Will 'Serve Peace'

This is Beirut, 11/03 20:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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An agreement to integrate autonomous Kurdish institutions in Syria's northeast into the new Syrian national government will "serve peace," Turkey's president said on Tuesday. "The full implementation of the agreement reached yesterday will serve Syria's security and peace. The winner will be all of our Syrian brothers," Recep Tayyip Erdogan told ...

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