After purging the judiciary, cracking down on the media, and jailing political opponents, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ...

For ethnic Kurds living in Japan, a smartphone camera turned in their direction is an unwanted reminder of the growing onl ...

Indeed, Steve Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy, described the call as “transformative” during a recent podcast conversation ...

Some have thought Mr Erdogan an aspiring dictator ever since the 1990s, when as an Islamist he campaigned against Turkey’s ...

Protests against Turkish President Erdogan have been ongoing since the arrest of Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu. Human ...

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The allegations against İmamoğlu are numerous and serious, including charges of membership in a criminal organization, bribery, fraud, bid rigging, and connections to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ ...

Anger over the detention of Ekrem İmamoğlu has spilled over into the fiercest protests to grip Turkey in over a decade.

The country’s strongman, President Erdogan, is ruthlessly cracking down on dissent just as Turkey’s influence in the Middle ...

In Syria, many Kurds celebrated Nowruz in secret under Assad. With him gone, Kurdish people are throwing their biggest spring equinox party in decades. But some still fear for their safety.

Following the 2017 referendum that cemented Turkey’s transition to a presidential system, two political figures emerged as ...