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Dismissed Kurdish mayors in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority eastern city of Van (Wan) urged a visiting delegation from the Council of Europe ...

Senior officials from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish opposition Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party will visit jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and ...

A new political era in Turkey must be built on local democracy, equality and a legally grounded social contract*, pro-Kurdish ...

The Council of Europe’s Congress of Local and Regional Authorities has placed the Turkish government’s practice of dismissing and arresting ...

“If this problem is to be solved, it will be through democratisation under the parliamentary roof,” said Özgür Özel, leader ...

“The continued disregard for democratic principles in Turkey should be taken seriously by all in the EU,” Nacho Sánchez Amor, ...

During a forceful appeal during her party’s municipal co-chairs meeting on Wednesday, Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party ...

Co-mayor of Tunceli (Dêrsim) Birsen Orhan was detained at her home in Pertek (Pêrteg) on Saturday, just days after having ...

Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) commander Murat Karayılan has reiterated that Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned co-founder of the PKK, is central ...