Rather than fostering genuine reconciliation, Turkey’s ‘terror-free’ process marginalizes and humiliates the Kurdish ...

Turkey is classified as a “brown country” with both democratic and authoritarian features, but democracy, legality, and ...

Syria was in danger of becoming a Turkish protectorate, explained Gideon Sa’ar, Israel’s foreign minister. Syria’s leaders ...

Syrian Kurds are set to demand a federal system in post-Assad Syria that would allow regional autonomy and security forces, a ...

Turkey's crackdown on President Tayyip Erdogan's main rival and silence on what reforms might follow the end of a 40-year ...

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Syrian Kurds are set to demand a federal system in post-Assad Syria that would allow regional autonomy and security forces, a ...

Under the agreement, Syria’s Kurds were granted full rights as citizens ... its success or failure will have profound implications for Turkey’s domestic stability and regional dynamics ...

Security forces from the new Islamist government in Damascus deployed Saturday around a strategic dam in northern Syria, ...

The Kurds are a stateless people of up to 45 million living in the Kurdistan mountains of west Asia, spanning southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq and northern Syria. Their ...

has waged an insurgency in Turkey since 1984 with the aim of carving out a homeland for the Kurds, who account for around 20 per cent of Turkey’s 85 million people. Throughout the bloody ...