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Some 40 000 people have been killed in the 25-year Kurdish fight for autonomy. Photo by timeturk.com
Turkey's Constitutional Court has voted to ban the country's largest pro-Kurdish party because of alleged links with Kurdish separatist rebels.
Turkey's chief prosecutor Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya argued that the Democratic Society Party (DTP) took orders from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
The DTP is the latest in a series of pro-Kurdish parties to have been closed down in Turkey.
The EU, which Turkey hopes to join, expressed concern over Friday's ruling.
"While strongly denouncing violence and terrorism, the presidency recalls that the dissolution of political parties is an exceptional measure that should be used with utmost restraint," the EU's Swedish presidency said in a statement.
The 11 judges in Turkey's Constitutional Court ruled that the DTP had become a "focal point of activities against the indivisible unity of the state, the country and the nation", court president Hasim Kilic told reporters.
He said DTP leaders Ahmet Turk and Aysel Tugluk had been stripped of parliamentary immunity and banned from politics for five years along with 35 other party members.
Greek national security agencies have launched an investigation into the growing number of land and property acquisitions in Northern Greece by citizens from Bulgaria and Turkey
Bulgaria is preparing to open new border crossings with both Serbia and Turkey as part of efforts to improve regional connectivity, the Cabinet’s press service reported
Germany is preparing a major change to its traffic regulations that could ban the use of mobile apps that alert drivers to speed cameras.
The Council of the European Union has formally approved a staged ban on imports of Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) and pipeline gas, with the measure set to be fully implemented by next year, the Council announced on January 26
President Rumen Radev will remain in office until Friday, when the Constitutional Court is expected to rule on his resignation. The court has officially announced that a hearing on the case has been scheduled for January 23, starting at 10 a.m.
President Rumen Radev has formally submitted his resignation to the Constitutional Court, marking an unprecedented move in the modern political history of Bulgaria
WHO launched its Humanitarian Appeal for Ukraine 2026, requesting USD 42 million to protect access to health care for 700,000 people.
At least 31 people have died and 169 were injured in a suicide attack on a Shi’ite mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan, authorities confirmed.
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Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein maintained a long-running network of contacts connected to Brussels, according to documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice
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