Angry protesters hit the streets of several cities in mainly-Kurdish southeastern Turkey on Monday after the authorities sacked three mayors on "terrorism" charges, sparking a rebuke from Europe's ...

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 ...

It is blacklisted as a "terror" group by Turkey and its Western ... now DEM -- called for protests over Ankara's failure to send in troops to protect Kobane, a Kurdish-majority city in ...

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday said that he is still “hopeful” about Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ...

Arnada Jones] The Kurdish population is estimated at 15-20 million in Turkey, 10-12 million in Iran ... regime change war in Syria that began in 2011. Recently, Erdoğan has repeatedly warned ...

Despite the authorities quickly banning any protests, more than 2,000 ... It is blacklisted as a "terror" group by Turkey and its Western allies. Kurds make up around 20 percent of Turkey's ...