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.

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.

Talks aimed at ending a 40-year-old militant conflict have fostered peace hopes in Turkey but the precarious situation of Kurdish forces in Syria and uncertainty about Ankara's intentions have left many Kurds anxious about the path ahead.

A delegation from one of Turkey’s biggest pro-Kurdish political parties has met a leading figure of the Kurdish movement in prison, the latest step in a tentative process to end the country’s 40-year conflict.

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 ...

The end is near for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party PKK and its affiliates in Syria Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan claimed here on Frida

Turkish soldier deployment in Syria will continue, Defense Ministry sources said Thursday, as terrorist groups remain a threat to Türkiye's

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.