Tens of thousands of people have been killed in the four decades since Kurdish separatist group the PKK took up arms against ...

Many of Turkey’s Kurds view Mr. Ocalan as a potent symbol of the struggle for Kurdish rights. And despite his imprisonment, ...

All eyes were on the Turkish government Tuesday with the Kurds and their supporters looking for confidence-building steps a ...

For Turkey, peace with the PKK now would further reduce a weakened Iran’s ability to project power westward. Some groups ...

Power is being centralised through legal means such as referendums, manipulated court rulings and selective prosecutions ...

Monday's decision promises to put an end to one of the longest insurgencies in the Middle East and could have significant ...

Yet Turkey has been sliding toward autocracy over the past decade. Mr. Erdogan has changed its Constitution to expand his power, brought the courts under his control, manipulated elections ...

The protests came a day after Turkish parliament speaker Ismail Kahraman said the Muslim-majority country "must have a religious constitution," adding to concerns about the ruling AK Party's ...

Further down the line it also wanted to see the Turkish constitution amended to guarantee Kurdish rights, the source said. A senior Iraqi security official also told AFP the PKK was waiting for ...