President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sees the upheaval in neighboring Syria as an opportunity to thwart Kurdish nationalism.
The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.
Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...
The Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM, formerly HDP, Turkey's is Turkey’s third-largest political party, and only DEM has the requisite number of seats in parliament (given the right ...
Turkey views the Kurds as an existential threat, despite their past role as a key US ally in the fight against ISIS – now, their future hangs in the balance ...
Turkey is attempting to form a new coalition to combat ISIS remnants and replace the Pentagon-backed Kurdish forces in Syria.
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Baghdad must refrain from policies that are aimed at punishing the Kurds and must instead see them ...
Turkey didn’t orchestrate Assad’s fall, but it’s certainly cashing in on the aftermath. Now, it wants to mould Syria in its ...
Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...
“Kurds were persecuted by previous authorities ... as well as against the armed factions backed by Turkey. Ankara regards the SDF as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or ...