This is the thirteenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...

Prologue An Orphic hymn says that Kypris, Aphrodite of Cyprus, was the “scheming mother of necessity.” She controlled and ...

Turkey of her own free will--for one must assume that the ... it remained with rare exceptions little more than a decorative appendage to the Turkish Sultanate until Sultan Abdul Hamid came to the ...

spanning from Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror to Sultan Abdul Hamid II, was inaugurated at the Rami Library. Organized by the Turkish Manuscripts Institution (TYEKB), the opening began with a Quran ...

Get ready to put your life on the line in a vicious game of morals, because the delightfully dark RPG Sultan’s Game is almost ready for its full Steam launch. When you’re dragged into the ...

Now, after four decades of fighting and 40,000 lives lost, there is cautious hope that the conflict haunting Turkey could end. On Thursday, Abdullah Öcalan, who founded the PKK in 1978 and is ...

Kurdish militants have declared a ceasefire in their 40-year conflict with Turkey, two days after their imprisoned leader called for the group to disarm. The statement from the Kurdistan Workers ...

(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File) Kurdish women dance during the Newroz celebrations marking the start of spring in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, March 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File) The ...

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a Kurdish militant group, on Saturday declared a cease-fire with Turkey, following a call from its imprisoned leader, Abdullah Öcalan, to disarm and ...

In an article that I came across recently, Nazri Aziz, the erstwhile Malaysian ambassador to the US, claimed that Malaysia must keep its sedition laws to check abuses of free speech. Nazri, a ...

If accepted by Turkey, the declaration could bring about the end of a decades-long conflict estimated to have killed at least 40,000 people and rippled across the borders of multiple neighboring ...