Turkish police Thursday detained the editor of a website that denounced as illegitimate the victory of the ‘Yes’ camp in the referendum on expanding President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s powers, the news site said. Left-wing website sendika.org said its editor-in-chief Ali Ergin Demirhan was held in a pre-down raid on its ...
A Turkish government minister on Tuesday blasted the European Union’s “unacceptable” appeal for a probe into alleged irregularities in the referendum on boosting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s powers. “Such a speculative statement from a spokesperson cannot be accepted,” Turkey’s EU Affairs Minister Omer Celik told reporters at a televised press ...
