One Turkish police officer was killed and nine others were wounded on Friday in a raid to capture a suspected Kurdish militant in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir, the governor’s office said. The officers launched the operation to arrest a member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the ...
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has in the recent weeks forced from office several of Turkey’s big city mayors, in a purge of local officials designed to shore up support for his ruling party. In a fast-moving and sometimes ruthless chain of resignations, four top city mayors have stepped down at ...
