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

Listen to political scientist Pinar Dinc explain what’s led to the PKK’s ceasefire with Turkey on The Conversation Weekly ...

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

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

Turkey’s president on Friday urged the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to seize the “historic opportunity” to end the ...

"Peace and a coup cannot coexist," says Meral Danış-Beştaş, spokesperson of the Peoples' Democratic Congress. The detentions ...

With the disintegration of the Syrian state after 2011, the Kurds in northeast Syria became key players in shaping the country’s future. The recent agreement between Damascus and the Kurdish-led ...

The president and board members of the bar association faced trial after condemning the killing of two journalists in an ...

For Erdogan, securing peace would be a legacy-defining achievement, bringing stability and economic development to Turkey’s southeast while bolstering Ankara’s influence in Syria and Iraq. Yet, his go ...

Turkey is "cautiously optimistic" about an agreement between the Kurdish-led and U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) ...

The Kurdish-led and U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which controls much of Syria's oil-rich northeast, has signed ...

At least nine members of the same family, including seven children, were killed in an alleged Turkish drone strike on a rural area near Kobani.