Ekrem İmamoğlu, the mayor of Istanbul, was arrested early in the morning of Wednesday, 19 March, on two charges ...

Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu’s detention sparks mass protests across Türkiye. As President Erdoğan tightens control, ...

Full interview with Turkish political scientist Ezgi Başaran on rising authoritarianism in Turkey, the arrest of Istanbul’s ...

After purging the judiciary, cracking down on the media, and jailing political opponents, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ...

After decades of managing tensions through careful balancing, Turkey and Iran now find themselves increasingly at odds ...

There is a stark similarity between the way Pakistan as a state has subjugated the Baloch people and the way Turkey has ...

Since the leader of the Turkish Nationalist Movement Party, Devlet Bahçeli, issued his call in October 2024 to disband the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and disarm it in exchange for the release of ...

Ever since the ouster of Bashar al-Assad from Syria, analysts had predicted that Turkey and Iran’s interests would soon collide. That forecast now seems to be materializing as tensions rise between ...

The agreement comes two weeks after jailed PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan called for the group to lay down its weapons and disband. The PKK, designated as a "terror" group by Turkey, the European ...

2. Abdullah Öcalan: Rebel without arms The PKK founder’s call to his supporters to lay down weapons and dissolve the organisation opens the possibility of bringing the 40-year conflict between ...

The agreement between the Damascus regime and the SDF is also linked to Ankara’s negotiations with the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, to get the PKK ...

Among those who hit the street to protest the killing of the Marxist leader was Abdullah Öcalan, a 24-year-old graduate from Ankara University. He was arrested and charged with distributing a ...