Kurds

Tens of thousands of Iranian Kurds live in dire conditions in the Kurdish region of Iraq as they await UN help.

Defence ministry says Turkey has been carrying out a new air-and-land operation against Kurdish fighters in the region.

Constitutional Court sends indictment seeking ban of HDP back to prosecutor over omissions, state media reports.

Gergerlioglu now plans to file an appeal with the European Court of Human Rights after Constitutional Court’s decision.

Campaign by nearly 5,000 of Kurdish-led forces follows spike in violence in sprawling camp in northeast Syria.

HDP lawmaker Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu had stayed in parliament for four nights to protest against stripping of MP status.

Move comes days after a top public prosecutor demanded the dissolution of the HDP, the third-largest party in Turkey.

Foreign ministry slams ‘intervention’ in response to EU and US criticism over the move to close down pro-Kurdish HDP.

US warns that efforts to remove legislator Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu, over a 2016 social media post, is ‘troubling’.

In the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, female victims of ‘honour killings’ lie buried in unmarked graves.

Conscription of teachers is affecting the education of nearly half a million students, new report says.

Rocket barrage launched from inside Iraq’s Kurdish region raises questions about who is responsible.

Contractor killed, nine wounded, including Americans, in major rocket strike on US-led coalition base in Erbil.

Washington once again appears willing to jeopardise the US-Turkey alliance for the Kurdish armed group.