Turkey unseats Kurdish mayors in crackdown

Turkey unseats Kurdish mayors in crackdown after peace proposal
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 made a proposal for ending the militants' 40-year insurgency in the southeast.
Turkey ousts 3 elected pro-Kurdish mayors from office and replaces them with state officials
Turkey has removed three elected pro-Kurdish mayors from office over terrorism-related charges and replaced them with state-appointed officials
Turkey Removes Pro-Kurdish Mayors for Alleged PKK Ties
On Monday, Turkey dismissed pro-Kurdish mayors from three southeastern cities, alleging connections to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), just weeks after a key ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan proposed a plan to end the group’s four-decade conflict.
Turkey opposition protests at mayor's arrest for 'PKK ties'
Turkish opposition parties protested Thursday against what they said was the politically-motivated arrest of an opposition mayor for alleged links to the banned Kurdish PKK militant group. The interior ministry said Ozer was arrested for "membership of the PKK terror organisation",
Turkey Replaces Pro-Kurdish Mayors With State Officials in Southeast
Local governors replaced the mayors in the provincial centres of Mardin and Batman, while the mayor of Halfeti in Sanliurfa province was also unseated, it added. All belonged to the pro-Kurdish DEM Party,
Turkey Sacks 3 Mayors In Kurdish Majority Southeast: Interior Ministry
Turkey on Monday sacked three mayors facing terrorism charges in the Kurdish-majority southeast and replaced them with trustees, the interior ministry said.
Al Jazeera on MSN3d
Hope still exists for Turkey-PKK detente, despite deadly attack
The promise of new peace negotiations between Turkey and the Kurdish fighters who have waged a 40-year rebellion was called ...
Turkey looks to end Kurdish PKK conflict as regional instability grows
Growing regional instability and changing political dynamics have prompted the first bid in a decade to end Turkey's 40-year ...
Why Release of PKK Leader Is Under Discussion in Turkey
A political ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is calling for the conditional release of Abdullah Ocalan, the ...
Turkey re-opens talks with Kurdish PKK as war in Middle East escalates
Ankara, worried about the consequences of the US-Israeli escalation of the war against Iran and across the Middle East, has ...
Factbox-The Kurdish PKK militants who could renew peace talks with Turkey
The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group could potentially restart peace talks with the Turkish government, after ...
Al-Monitor10d
PKK claims responsibility for fatal TUSAS attack in Turkey’s capital
ANKARA — The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) on Friday claimed responsibility for the deadly attack on a Turkish ...