Azerbaijani Turks in Iran endure discrimination and cultural oppression. Changes in Tehran have not improved the situation, ...

After 43 months without outside contact, jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan has been allowed to meet with left-wing MPs.

If the Kurds were supported to form their own agency in the north of Syria and Iraq and the bordering region between the two ...

Unfortunately, new policymakers in Damascus are of the view that strengthening ties with Turks is more important than getting all the Syrian political groups on board. Also, Damascus thinks that with ...

On the other hand, he has threatened to “bury” the Kurds “in the ground” if they do not respond to Bahceli’s overtures and ...

Garo Paylan, the former member of parliament in Turkey and outspoken proponent of rights for Armenians and Kurds there, ...

Supporters of the revolution in Rojava, Oğuz Yüzgeç and Sercan Üstündaş spent the last three years in a Damascus jail.

In the Ottoman era, “Turk” essentially meant “Muslim.” A Catholic Albanian, a Greek Orthodox, or a Jew who converted to Islam would become a Turk, which meant accepting Islam. At the time, the word ...

Over the last two decades, developments in the Middle East have helped transform the Kurds’ struggle for greater recognition and even self-determination from a country-specific issue to a ...

Cook County Deputy Shamone Duncan, 50, was fatally struck by a stray bullet while vacationing in Turks and Caicos on January 18 during a shooting incident at Aziza Restaurant & Lounge. The ...