Dakhil Shammo of VOA’s Kurdish service went to Minnesota and met with two local candidates in this story narrated by Amy Katz.

KAWAGUCHI, Saitama Prefecture--Hate speech has again reared its ugly head, in this case against the Kurdish community living close to Tokyo. It follows an altogether familiar pattern: phone calls ...

DEM says people's will violated amid expectations of peace Erdogan ally proposed to end militant conflict 2 weeks ago Dozens of Kurdish mayors dismissed in past crackdowns Istanbul mayor says ...

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Election results from the vote for the regional parliament in Iraq’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region show the two dominant Kurdish parties have maintained their hold ...

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Photo: IHA/Associated Press Turkey launched airstrikes overnight against what it said were sites linked to a Kurdish separatist group in Iraq and Syria, hours after an armed assault on a Turkish ...

The Turkish government has dismissed three mayors affiliated with the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (Dem), citing terrorism-related charges. Mayors from Mardin, Batman and ...

Turkey on Monday sacked three mayors in the Kurdish-majority southeast on alleged "terrorism" charges, despite Ankara's apparent desire to seek a rapprochement with the Kurdish community.

Turkey on Monday removed three elected pro-Kurdish mayors from office over terrorism-related charges and replaced them with state-appointed officials, the Interior Ministry said. The move ...

Turkish airstrikes hit 47 targets in northern Iraq and Syria in retaliation of a deadly attack in the capital that it’s blamed on Kurdish militants. Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said both ass ...

The largest Kurdish opposition party, New Generation, was a distant third with 15 seats. Sign up here. Middle Eastcategory Nearly 70% of verified Gaza war dead women and children, UN rights office ...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkey dismissed the pro-Kurdish mayors of three southeastern cities on Monday for alleged ties to Kurdish militants, just two weeks after President Tayyip Erdogan's main ally ...