Thousands of opposition protesters demonstrated in Istanbul on Sunday against a crackdown on MPs from Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party and municipal chiefs in the southeast. At least 5,000 people — mainly supporters of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and the secular Republican People’s Party (CHP) — gathered on the ...
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey should not be “fixated” on joining the EU and has reiterated the idea of joining Russia and China in a Eurasian security group, local media reported Sunday. His comments come as Turkey’s decades-long hopes of joining the European Union have reached a nadir, driven ...
