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Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party has accused the government of attempting to undermine local democracy by continuing ...

The People's Democratic Congress (HDK), one of the largest umbrella organisations of the Turkish opposition, has officially called on Özgür ...

Turkey’s Interior Ministry has removed Kağızman (Qaxizman) Municipality’s elected co-mayors and replaced them with a state-appointed trustee, triggering outrage among ...

Turkish authorities have ousted the elected co-mayors of Van (Wan) Metropolitan Municipality, Abdullah Zeydan and Neslihan Şedal, replacing them with ...

Council of Europe's Congress of Local and Regional Authorities has condemned the Turkish government's dismissal of Van (Wan) Mayor Abdullah ...

"We expected a call from Mr Öcalan, but they sent trustees instead," declared Tuncer Bakırhan, co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' ...

Protests in Van (Wan), a Kurdish-majority city in eastern Turkey, have escalated after the government removed elected mayor Abdullah Zeydan ...