People attend a protest rally in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, March 20, 2025, against the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem ...

New research is shedding light on the bouleuterion building that once stood in the ancient city of Teos, located in ...

Elif Shafak was charged with "insulting Turkishness" after the release of her book The Bastard of Istanbul. Speaking with ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Share ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish security forces have killed 26 Kurdish militants in the past week, the ...

Turkey Continues Operations on PKK in Iraq, Syria Despite Ocalan Call ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey's armed forces have killed 26 Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria in the week since jailed militant ...

For more than four decades, Turkey has been fighting an armed insurgency by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, a militant group that says it seeks greater rights for the country’s Kurdish minority.

Now, after four decades of fighting and 40,000 lives lost, there is cautious hope that the conflict haunting Turkey could end. On Thursday, Abdullah Öcalan, who founded the PKK in 1978 and is ...

Travel Bucketlist The Fall of Constantinople: Tracing History in Istanbul, Turkey Posted: 2 March 2025 | Last updated: 2 March 2025 Journey back in time as we explore the dramatic fall of ...

The jailed leader of Turkiye’s outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Abdullah Ocalan has made a historic call for the party to lay down its arms, dissolve itself and end its decades-long conflict ...

Feb. 27 (UPI) --Abdullah Ocalan, imprisoned founder of the Kurdistan Workers Party known as PKK, sent a letter calling for the group to disarm and dissolve to make peace with Turkey. "I am making ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani agreed during a call Tuesday to work "quickly" to reopen the Iraq-Türkiye pipeline, according to the State ...