Turkey's government is reaching out to the Kurdish population at home while backing militias fight Kurds in Syria. What is behind Recep Tayyip Erdogan's approach?

A fresh drive to bring an end to Turkey's 40-year Kurdish conflict has seen politicians from the pro-Kurdish party meet ...

The appointment of trustees and other attacks on democratic rights by the government show that the renewed negotiations ...

One of the DEM delegation, Ahmet Turk, said: “I believe that Turks need Kurds and Kurds need Turks. Our wish is for Turkey to ...

Although Erdogan might deplore the effect on Turkey’s domestic political scene, he may yet see an autonomous Kurdish region ...

The PKK has been engaged in an insurgency in southeast Turkey for decades, sometimes resorting to violence in its pursuit of more autonomy and rights for ethnic Kurds. Turkey, the U.S. and the ...

“Turkey is a major threat to Kurds and to democratic experiments that Kurds have been implementing in the region starting in 2014,” says Ozlem Goner, steering committee member of the Emergency ...

To be sure, President-elect Trump is no friend of jihadists. But he previously threatened to abandon the Kurds and let Turkey deal with them. The Pentagon bureaucracy slow-walked his ...

Turkey’s economy is wobbly, and potent U.S. economic sanctions could destabilize Erdoğan’s government. When asked about the reports of Turkish-aligned forces attacking Syrian Kurds ...

The U.S. and Turkey risk a confrontation if Turkey or its jihadist proxies attack the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), America’s ally fighting ISIS. Defeating ISIS is still a work in progress; the ...