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 ...

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

Mehmet Alkan, the co-mayor of Kağızman district in Kars, eastern Turkey, has been sentenced to six years and three months in ...

“Sentenced to three years and nine months in prison for aiding a terrorist organisation, the mayor of the municipality of Van, Abdullah Zeydan, has been temporarily suspended from his duties ...

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

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 ...

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.

The local governor replaced Abdullah Zeydan, a member of the pro-Kurdish DEM Party and mayor of the eastern province of Van because of his recent conviction for "assisting an armed terrorist ...

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