Tunceli

A Turkish court has sentenced Tunceli Bar Association head U?ur Ye?iltepe to six years in jail on terrorism charges, making him the first chair of a Turkish bar association to be sentenced to prison since the 1980 military coup.

Ye?iltepe and six others were convicted of terrorist crimes stemming from their alleged membership in the outlawed Maoist Communist Party (MKP).

Three men who killed a mountain goat in Turkey's eastern province of Tunceli despite a hunting ban have been caught and fined 15,000 Turkish Liras after a photographer took photos of them.

The provincial head of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has been missing in the Eastern Anatolian province of Tunceli for more than 24 hours.

Following the disappearance of Hüseyin Zeytin, the CHP's provincial head for Tunceli, a group of 10 CHP members, including the party's provincial deputy head, launched a search party.

It started a week ago when Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu challenged Devlet Bahçeli, the leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), to go and say in the eastern province of Tunceli the same words he said in Parliament about the 1937-38 suppression of an uprising there.

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli arrived in the eastern province of Tunceli on Nov. 28 for a tense visit, as protests erupted in the city against the MHP head.

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli is set to pay a visit to the eastern province of Tunceli on Nov. 28, but a number of NGOs have reacted negatively to the intended visit, declaring Bahçeli unwelcome in the city. 

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli will travel to the Eastern Anatolian province of Tunceli (Dersim) over the weekend, after Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu claimed that he would not be able to reiterate his arguments on the "Dersim debate" if he meets with residents of the province.

Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş has stepped into the ongoing debate over the massacre of thousands of people in the Eastern Anatolian province of Dersim, today called Tunceli, in 1937-38.

An apology voiced for the 1938 massacre in Dersim by a deputy chair of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) looks set to lead to more internal turmoil within the party, with one of its hardline deputies complaining that Deputy Chair Sezgin Tanrıkulu’s statement resembled the words of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP).

An administrative court has canceled a project to build three hydroelectric plant and a dam project in one of the most important natural habitats in eastern Turkey in a ruling that could set a landmark precedent for future environmental activism.