The detention of İmamoglu, Erdogan's main political opponent, marks a new stage in Turkey's descent into dictatorship under ...

Long-serving, autocratic-leaning Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is seeking to extend his tenure beyond ...

The mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, was detained after prosecutors accused him of corruption and terrorism. The opposition said the ...

Turkish police arrested Istanbul’s mayor — a popular opposition leader and key rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — and ...

For more than 40 years, the Turkish government has fought the PKK in eastern Turkey, northern Iraq and Syria. Recent efforts ...

Peace was a central theme in this year’s celebrations in the Kurdish city, where Women's Day was marked for the first time in ...

Thousands of women have taken to the streets of Turkish cities to mark International Women’s Day, protesting inequality and ...

Crowds in Diyarbakir, the largest city in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority southeast ... Gultan Kisanak, a Kurdish politician who ...

Even from the island prison where he has spent the past 26 years, Abdullah Ocalan still wields power over the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the rebel group he founded to fight for a Kurdish homeland ...

Soresoglu, 55, also has a son serving a prison term for being a member of the PKK, which is considered a terrorist organization by Turkey and its Western allies. He was wounded in fighting in ...