Eight DEM Party-member mayors and two main opposition CHP-member mayors across Turkey have been removed from their posts over terrorism-related charges since March 2024 local elections. Another ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Turkey’s Interior Ministry on Saturday dismissed the Kurdish mayor of Van, Abdullah Zeydan, and ...

The European Parliament has passed a resolution condemning Turkey's removal of elected opposition mayors and their ...

By the end of 2011, the Syrian Civil War had started, becoming a long-standing symbol of conflict in the Middle East.

The interim government in Damascus has called for a powerful Kurdish-led militia backed by the United States to disarm and ...

The European Parliament has condemned Turkish legal action against mayors from opposition parties, and called for municipal officials who have been detained in recent weeks to be released, acquitted ...

Rolling his cigarette between sips of tea, Suleyman Ilcan is excited about a message from jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan ...

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After 40 years of insurgency and 40,000 lives lost, Ocalan is expected to call for PKK fighters to lay down their arms. However, with President Erdogan's democratic backsliding and continued crackdown ...

T URKEY’s TV stars do not have it easy. The global success of the country’s soap operas, episodes that last up to three hours ...

The Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM, formerly HDP, Turkey's is Turkey’s third-largest political party, and only DEM has the requisite number of seats in parliament (given the right ...

Syria is fractured by competing armies but who holds power and where may be shifting as the US eyes an exit.