"I was pinned to the floor by armed law enforcement officers in the house where I was staying with my children, and a gun was held to my head. My daughter was forced to undress in front of the cameras ...

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, does not want to risk that. Letting out Selahattin Demirtas, a Kurdish politician and former presidential candidate, would have been a less controversial ...

With Syria's new leadership emerging as a key U.S. partner, American troops in the country find themselves amid a complex ...

Providing Iraq’s air defenses, or having the US deploy air defenses at selective sites, is not likely the best answer. The ...

A decades-old case has come back to haunt Turkey, as Europe’s top rights court says a man's life sentence was built on an ...

While Ankara said the president has no plans to meet Mazloum Abdi, the Kurdish leader previously expressed a desire to ...

Syria’s Kurdish minority say peace talks with Turkey and the PKK, which has seen the group disarm, have had ’a positive ...

Efforts to broker peace between Turkey and the Kurdish militant group PKK have had a "positive impact" on Syria's Kurds who ...

The PKK has demanded the release of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan from prison as a precursor to peace talks—but doing so would lead to a national crisis in Turkey.

The persecution of students and teachers is a product of the government's agenda to eliminate fundamental democratic rights ...

Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has sought to promote the uniqueness of Turkish identity, its exceptionalism and the ...

Turkey demanded an explanation from Iraqi Kurdish officials after former leader Masoud Barzani arrived in a mainly Kurdish ...