The suspension of the mayor of Van, a majority Kurdish city in the east of the country, came with negotiations underway between the government and the historic head of the Kurdistan Workers Party ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Turkey’s Interior Ministry on Saturday dismissed the Kurdish mayor of Van, Abdullah Zeydan, and replaced him with a trustee after he was sentenced to three years and ...

Turkey’s government dismissed the Kurdish mayor of the eastern province of Van after he was sentenced to prison for terrorism charges, marking the latest in a wave of arrests and investigations ...

The imprisoned leader of the banned Kurdistan Workers Party has called on his group to disarm and disband in a bid to end 40 ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The chairman of the United States House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee said he wants to see the establishment of an independent Kurdish region within Syria in ...