The Turkish government has dismissed three mayors affiliated with the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (Dem), citing terrorism-related charges. Mayors from Mardin, Batman and ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — State media say a mayor from Turkey’s main opposition party has been detained on suspicion of being a member of a banned Kurdish militant group. Ahmet Ozer, mayor of Istanbul ...

Angry protesters hit the streets of several cities in mainly-Kurdish southeastern Turkey on Monday after the authorities sacked three mayors on "terrorism" charges, sparking a rebuke from Europe's ...

from belonging to an armed group to disseminating propaganda for the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Since 1984, the PKK has waged an insurgency against the Turkish state in which more ...

Turkey on Monday sacked three mayors in the Kurdish-majority southeast on alleged "terrorism" charges, despite Ankara's apparent desire to seek a rapprochement with the Kurdish community. In a ...