Communist Mayor

Fatih Macoglu, the popular "Communist Mayor" of a city in eastern Turkey, is now vying for control of a vibrant and hip Istanbul district along the Asian banks of the Bosphorus.

Communist guerrillas waging one of Asia's longest-running insurgencies have ambushed and killed the mayor of a town in the violence-plagued southern Philippines, the military said on Thursday.

Fatih Macoglu, the popular "Communist Mayor" of a city in eastern Turkey, is now vying for control of a vibrant and hip Istanbul district along the Asian banks of the Bosphorus.

Communist guerrillas waging one of Asia's longest-running insurgencies have ambushed and killed the mayor of a town in the violence-plagued southern Philippines, the military said on Thursday.