Kurdish societies were spread across the Ottoman empire, and never managed to unite under a single identity like the Armenians and the Turks. Therefore, they were unable to make a claim for a ...

Since its establishment in the 1920s following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Iraq has grappled with the complexities ... the central government has challenged the autonomy of the Kurdistan ...

President Erdogan has spearheaded numerous major infrastructure projects as part of a programme to modernise Turkey [Getty Images] ...