If Erdoğan and his government simply instrumentalize the promise of peace as a regional power grab, the challenges in ...

The jailed founder of a Kurdish nationalist group has called for the movement to lay down its arms, but Kurdish forces seem unwilling to as long as Turkish strikes continue.

The detention of Istanbul's popular mayor risks undermining Turkey's move to end the PKK militant group's 40-year-old ...

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has asked President Donald Trump to approve Turkey's re-admission to the F-35 fighter ...

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Here’s a look at Kurdish people. Kurds do not have an official homeland or country. Most reside within countries in the Middle East including northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, western Iran and small ...

With the disintegration of the Syrian state after 2011, the Kurds in northeast Syria became key players in shaping the ...

For more than 40 years, the Turkish government has fought the PKK in eastern Turkey, northern Iraq and Syria. Recent efforts ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Turkey’s pro-Kurdish political party wants the Kurdish language to be officially recognized in ...

(Turkish Foreign Ministry press service via AP) ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister said Friday that Ankara is closely ...

The arrest of Istanbul’s popular mayor, a challenger to the president, is a dangerous step.