Turkey's election authority has scrapped a decision to annul an pro-Kurdish candidate's election victory after days of escalating protests. Abdullah Zeydan won the mayoral elections in the eastern ...

The protests organised under conditions of growing social anger and opposition are aimed at controlling, not mobilising the ...

Anger over Turkey's assault on Kurds in northern Syria has sparked protests in Europe and demands that Western powers stop Turkey from crushing part of a self-declared autonomous region in the ...

The Dersim massacre in 1938 saw as many as 70,000 killed in eastern Turkey under the Turkification ... burned themselves alive in protest. Rape and sexual abuse was rife in what was a systematic ...

Protests turned ugly in Turkey after Kurds took to the streets angry at the government's "inaction" over Islamic State's (IS) forced occupation of the Syrian border town of Kobani. At least nine ...

The four individuals fled to Turkey after facing legal action in Iran for their involvement in the protests sparked by the ...

Turkey's military has "neutralized" 12 militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, the Defence ...

State-run media in Turkey says an Australian women has been arrested in Turkey over her alleged links to a Kurdish militant group.

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Kurdish supporters of the Western Sydney Wanderers showed their solidarity with Kurdish soccer players at the team’s winning January 1 match. Peter Boyle reports. More than 200 people attended a ...

Anti-government protests have swept across Iran since the death in custody of a Kurdish woman there 12 days ago ... region straddling the borders of Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Armenia.

U.S.-backed forces in eastern Syria launched a major attack on three posts manned by pro-government gunmen on Aug. 12 ...