Sackings of mayors and multiple arrests threaten to torpedo a tentative peace deal with the Kurds – and Turkey’s president is doing this on purpose, experts claim.

Two senior leaders of Turkey’s largest business association have been banned from foreign travel for 'disseminating false ...

The operation against the Peoples’ Democratic Congress, a coalition of nominally left parties led by the Kurdish Peoples' ...

David Eray (Switzerland, EPP/CCE) and Bryony Rudkin (United Kingdom, SOC/G/PD), co-Rapporteurs of the Congress of Local and ...

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

Shafaq News/ On Saturday, the Turkish Ministry of Interior announced the dismissal of a second pro-Kurdish mayor, Abdullah ...

A ninth mayor from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM party, the third largest in parliament, has been removed from office because of alleged links to a ‘terrorist organisation’, the interior ministry said on ...

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'.

Turkey’s government dismissed the Kurdish mayor of the eastern province of Van after he was sentenced to prison for terrorism ...

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

The government’s move to replace the elected co-mayor of Van with a state-appointed trustee has drawn criticism from ...