President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey, who turns 71 next month and is in his third decade as the nation’s leader, has an appetite for power that appears as healthy as ever. On Monday, he declared ...

The DEM Party has labeled the meetings as crucial steps toward enhancing dialogue and reconciliation. The delegation plans to ...

In the Ottoman era, “Turk” essentially meant “Muslim.” A Catholic Albanian, a Greek Orthodox, or a Jew who converted to Islam ...

"United States and Turkey play pivotal roles in mediating between the new Syrian administration and the SDF," stated Pedersen ...

For Israel, Turkish President Erdoğan might become the next existential threat as he envisions a neo-Ottoman empire.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan underscored the need to grant Syria's new administration the opportunity to confront the issue of Kurdish militants operating within its borders. He emphasised ...

The new Syrian regime can only be trusted if it concedes meaningful decentralization to the country’s minority groups.

DESPITE Kurds making up 20 per cent of the population, the Turkish state denied their existence until 1991. They were referred to instead as “Mountain Turks.” Kurdish people have ... as 70,000 killed ...

Such an outcome would be very much in the interests of most of Syria’s population ... by Turkey, which currently seeks to destroy the model of local autonomy that exists in the Kurdish-led ...

They live mainly in regions spanning Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. Turkey, believed to be home to half of the Kurdish population, has pursued a strict assimilation policy. But Kurds in the region ...

More than 50,000 Syrian refugees have left Turkey to return home since Bashar al-Assad's ouster. But for many others living in the country, the thought raises a host of worrying questions.