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

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.

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 ...

In the aftermath of the ruling, Kurdish officials said a preliminary deal has been reached with Baghdad, which will approach Turkey to resume oil imports from the KRG. However, no such request by ...

One of them is Souad Khalaf. Her daughter Hevrin was a noted Kurdish politician who was shot dead along with her driver when their car was ambushed in October 2019. It happened days after Turkey ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...