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 ...

Assad’s regime, Turkey has intensified its military operations in northern Syria – targeting Kurdish groups and even pursuing ...

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 ...

Members on both sides of the aisle agreed that the U.S. should engage with the fledgling Syrian government to ensure ...

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

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We have massive numbers in our prisons, and this constitutes an ongoing threat,” the Syrian Democratic Forces commander, Gen.

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 ...