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 ...

It's been just over a month since in Syria Bashar al-Assad was toppled by Islamist-led rebel forces. Among the many groups ...

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

“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 ...

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’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 ...

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 government has intensified its rhetoric against the Kurds. Turkish Defense Minister Yaşar Güler said on Sunday "Our primary agenda is the dissolution of the PKK/YPG." Incoming ...

The Kurds helped the United States contain the Islamic State. Now they fear a resurgent Turkey that has long considered them an adversary. Here’s a guide. By Lara Jakes Lara Jakes writes about ...

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 ...