the CHP mayor of Istanbul’s Esenyurt district. Ozer has been behind bars since October as part of a separate investigation into his alleged connections to the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK. The tender-rigging scheme was allegedly led by a man ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Turkish interior ministry on Friday removed the mayor of Istanbul’s Besiktas district days after he was arrested and accused of bribery and membership in a criminal organization.

The Republican People’s Party, Turkey’s main opposition party, condemned the arrest as politically motivated, with Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu calling it an attempt to sway public opinion. #EuropeNe

A fresh drive to bring an end to Turkey's 40-year Kurdish conflict has seen politicians from the pro-Kurdish party meet jailed leaders.

THE mayor of one of Turkey’s opposition strongholds was arrested today as part of a bid-rigging investigation, prosecutors in Istanbul said. Riza Akpolat, who heads Besiktas municipality on the city’s European side, was detained at his summer house in Edremit on Turkey’s west coast, news agency DHA reported.

A delegation from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) traveled to İmralı Island today for their second meeting with Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group.

Meanwhile, in an address Saturday to ruling party supporters in Diyarbakir, the largest city in the Kurdish-majority southeast, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for the disbandment of the PKK and the surrender of its weapons.

Two pro-Kurdish Turkish lawmakers met Wednesday with the jailed founder of the PKK, part of an effort to revive dialogue between Ankara and the banned militant organisation.

the CHP mayor of Istanbul’s Esenyurt district. Ozer has been behind bars since October as part of a separate investigation into his alleged connections to the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party ...

In an interview with Saudi Arabia’s Asharq Al Awsat’s News channel on Tuesday, SDF commander Mazloum Abdi said the alliance’s “basic demand” is for decentralized administration – a potential challenge to Syria’s new leadership, which wants to bring all of the country back under the government’s authority after ousting Bashar al-Assad last month.

They are looking to resolve one of the most explosive questions looming over Syria: the fate of Kurdish forces that the U.S. considers key allies against Islamic State and that Turkey regards as a national security threat.

By Akin Nazli in Belgrade The Turkish government has been at it again, trampling on “Kurdish” and other opposition ballot box outcomes that stick in its craw. On January 13, it arrested the co-mayors of a municipality held by pro-Kurdish party DEM and appointed trustees.