Nestled in the tri-border region between Iraq, Türkiye, and Iran, the Qandil Mountains have long been shrouded in myth.

President Tayyip Erdogan risks losing support among nationalist Turkish voters in making peace with Kurdistan Workers Party ...

By Akin Nazli in Belgrade Ekrem Imamoglu, mayor of Istanbul and chief political rival to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was on July 16 sentenced to a 17-month prison term for insulting the ...

The state still considers them terrorists. They are Kurdish children. The state must act immediately and extend its hand for ...

Driven by renewed dialogue between Kurdish lawmakers and jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, the act—led by senior female ...

The symbolic gesture is the first phase of disarming the PKK as part of a rejuvenated peace process with Turkiye, which could ...

Turkey is hoping the apparent end to a four decades-long conflict with a Kurdish separatist group will close a chapter of terrorist activity, with peace bringing with it a revitalisation of the ...

If found guilty, he faces up to seven years in prison and a ban from politics.Before his arrest, Imamoglu, 55, was widely seen as the strongest threat to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s efforts to ...

The PKK disarmament ceremony also could mark a new era for the Kurds, one of the largest stateless groups in the world with over 30 million people living across Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria. The PKK ...

Can a symbolic act of disarmament by the PKK mark the beginning of a new democratic chapter in the four-decade Kurdish ...

By Akin Nazli in Belgrade Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), junior ally Nationalist Movement Party (AKP) and the pro-Kurdish DEM Party will from now on “walk together”, the ...