The choice of cabinet officials was seen as a litmus test for whether the rebels who ousted Bashar al-Assad would deliver on ...

Here’s a look at Kurdish people. Kurds do not have an official homeland or country. Most reside within countries in the Middle East including northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, western Iran and small ...

The jailed founder of a Kurdish nationalist group has called for the movement to lay down its arms, but Kurdish forces seem ...

April 6-7, 2005 – (IRAQ) Kurdish leader Talabani is selected the country ... May 18, 2015 – (TURKEY) In the run-up to parliamentary elections on June 7, an explosion rocks the office of ...

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

Some minorities may see benefits in allying with Israel today. Syria is now ruled by a former al-Qaeda leader. A recent ...

Kurdish leaders affiliated with the PKK are more cautious ... and oil and gas fields," according to the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency. These changing geopolitical dynamics may not be enough ...

Hundreds of thousands of protestors have taken to the streets of Istanbul following the arrest of Ekrem İmamoğlu, Istanbul’s ...

The list of ministers appears to be a compromise between calls for a diverse cabinet to unite the divided country while ...

Some have thought Mr Erdogan an aspiring dictator ever since the 1990s, when as an Islamist he campaigned against Turkey’s ...