Abdullah Zeydan criticized the appointment of a state trustee in his place, stressing that his election reflected the ...

Abdullah Zeydan of the pro-Kurdish DEM Party was replaced after being convicted for 'assisting an armed terrorist organisation'.

A ninth mayor from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM party, the third largest in parliament, has been removed from office because of ...

Turkish authorities have sacked another elected pro-Kurdish mayor over a terrorism-linked conviction, the Interior Ministry ...

Turkey on Saturday removed another elected pro-Kurdish provincial mayor over convictions on terrorism-related charges and appointed a state official in his place, the interior ministry said.

The European Parliament has criticized Turkey's detention and removal of opposition mayors, demanding their release and ...

The European Parliament has condemned Turkish legal action against mayors from opposition parties, and called for municipal officials who have been detained in recent weeks to be released, acquitted ...

Rolling his cigarette between sips of tea, Suleyman Ilcan is excited about a message from jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan ...

Western nations joined key players in the Middle East on Thursday in a pledge of support for war-torn Syria's delicate transition after the fall of longtime leader Bashar al-Assad.

The Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM, formerly HDP, Turkey's is Turkey’s third-largest political party, and only DEM has the requisite number of seats in parliament (given the right ...

Gulf Keystone Petroleum Limited is a small company in the Kurdistan part of Iraq. A pipeline through Turkey would help get ...

Ten officials were detained in Turkey over suspected links to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, expanding a crackdown on ...