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

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

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

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

The mayor of an eastern Turkish province was convicted of helping the PKK terrorist group at a retrial on Tuesday. A heavy ...

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 local ...

VAN, Turkey - A Turkish court sentenced the mayor of Van city to three years and nine months. The Kurdish politician claimed ...

The WSWS and the Socialist Equality Group, regardless of their political differences with the CHP and the DEM Party, oppose ...

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

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 ...