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.

The remains of a convoy in Syria hit by a Turkish airstrike in December 2024, which Ankara claims was carrying missiles to ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurds and the new Syrian administration have very different aspirations for the country, but the ...

The Turkish Ministry of National Defense announced the elimination of 13 militants from the People's Defense Units (YPG), the ...

Turkey reported killing 23 Kurdish militants in northern Syria, targeting the YPG militia and the outlawed PKK. Ankara views ...

Amid historical changes in the balance of power in the Middle East, at least one thing remains constant: the strategic ...

Sırrı Süreyya Önder and Pervin Buldan, who formed a delegation as part of the ambitious terror-free Türkiye initiative, are ...

DOHA/ISTANBUL, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Sunday he hoped President Donald Trump would end U.S. cooperation with the Syrian Kurdish YPG, as Turkey continued its ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Syria’s newly-appointed President Ahmed al-Sharaa discussed deepened security ties ...

The YPG cemented this support from the West in 2014 when it successfully repelled an ISIS assault. This advancement, however, also triggered events that exposed why Kurdish autonomy has been so hard ...

The defence ministry said the militants belonged to the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK. Turkey regards the PKK and YPG to be identical, while the ...