The European Parliament has criticized Turkey's detention and removal of opposition mayors, demanding their release and ...

The European Parliament has condemned Turkish legal action against mayors from opposition parties, and called for municipal officials who have been detained in recent weeks to be released, acquitted ...

Rolling his cigarette between sips of tea, Suleyman Ilcan is excited about a message from jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan ...

After 40 years of insurgency and 40,000 lives lost, Ocalan is expected to call for PKK fighters to lay down their arms. However, with President Erdogan's democratic backsliding and continued crackdown ...

T URKEY’s TV stars do not have it easy. The global success of the country’s soap operas, episodes that last up to three hours ...

On a plane back to Turkey following his capture in 1999, Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan declared that he loved his ...

Prosecutor ordered the arrest of two deputy mayors and seven other city council members from nine districts in Turkey's ...

Turkish police detained nine district municipal council members from the Republican People's Party (CHP) on terrorism-related charges on Tuesday, state broadcaster TRT said, continuing a crackdown on ...

Finding common ground with Turkey will be critical to Syria’s transition. Security continues to deteriorate in northeast ...

The discussions will center on the outcomes of their meetings with Ocalan and the prospects of launching a renewed peace ...

"If a new peace process is announced and the Kurdish issue is resolved, the obstacles to democracy and all other problems in ...

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described as Arabs. Now they are seizing the chance during the post-Assad transition ...