University students with no history of activism are now at the forefront of demonstrations against Erdogan’s increasingly ...

A Swedish journalist arrested on arrival in Turkey and detained on terrorism charges is being kept away from other prisoners ...

Cihan Sincar clings to hope that Turkey's bid to end a decades-old Kurdish insurgency brings the peace her lawmaker husband ...

Turkey's crackdown on President Tayyip Erdogan's main rival and silence on what reforms might follow the end of a 40-year ...

Turkish authorities have arrested a Swedish journalist dispatched to cover ongoing nationwide protests on charges of ...

As democracy in Turkey collapses under the pressure of the escalating imperialist war and growing social inequality, a ...

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 ...

AKRE. Iraq (AP) — Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and ...

Meanwhile, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, which has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey that has spilled over into conflict in Syria and northern Iraq, recently announced a ceasefire ...

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

The talks sought to advance steps toward ending a more than 40-year conflict between the state and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which last month declared a ceasefire in response to jailed ...

They have now reached another turning point. Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) has called on his 5,000 guerrilla followers to lay down arms after talks with the Turkish ...