Thousands of pro-Kurdish party members, including lawmakers, were jailed on militancy charges in an accompanying crackdown. Kurds make up around a fifth of Turkey's population of 85 million. REUTERS ...

DEM says people's will violated amid expectations of peace Erdogan ally proposed to end militant conflict 2 weeks ago Dozens of Kurdish mayors dismissed in past crackdowns Istanbul mayor says ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Angry protestors, led by opposition politicians on Monday, hit the streets in Turkey hours after Ankara removed three Kurdish mayors on “terror” charges and replaced ...

Turkey on Monday removed three elected pro-Kurdish mayors from office over terrorism-related charges and replaced them with state-appointed officials, the Interior Ministry said. The move ...

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.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkey dismissed the pro-Kurdish mayors of three southeastern cities on Monday for alleged ties to Kurdish militants, just two weeks after President Tayyip Erdogan's main ally ...

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 ...

Deliveries of Kurdish crude oil have been suspended for over a year amid a dispute between the central government in Baghdad and Turkey over who had the power to authorize these deliveries.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Ministry of Interior announced on Sunday that sellers of unregistered SIM cards will face heavy fines, warning the practice can ...

Incoming Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar presents a vision of alliances with Kurdish and Druze communities in the Middle East, saying minorities in the region will need to stick together ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan seemed to give his implicit support on Tuesday for an unprecedented proposal by his ...

Outlawed Kurdish PKK militants on Friday claimed the ... Ocalan may tell the PKK to lay down its arms, as he did in a letter in 2013. But the visit had only just ended when the Ankara attack ...