2 Pro-Kurdish Ministers Quit Turkish Government

Two ministers from Turkey’s interim government resigned Tuesday while fighting between Kurdish rebels and government forces continues in the country's southeast. EU Affairs Minister Ali Haydar Konca and Development Minister Muslum Dogan, both members of the pro-Kurdish People's Democracy Party, quit the government posts amid heightened tension with the ruling AK Party before elections called for November 1, 2015. Konca told reporters after the resignation the government's...

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