Hundreds in Turkey protest arrest, ouster of opposition mayor
ISTANBUL — Hundreds gathered Thursday in Istanbul to protest the arrest and removal from office of a mayor from Turkey's main opposition party for his alleged links to a banned Kurdish militant group. Ahmet Ozer, mayor of Istanbul's Esenyurt district and a member of the Republican People's Party, or CHP, was detained on Wednesday by anti-terrorist police over his alleged connection to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK. Turkey's government on Thursday replaced Ozer with Istanbul's deputy governor... Читать дальше...