Strengthening ties between the Kurds and Israel could counterbalance Turkish and Iranian ambitions, promote regional ...
If the Kurds do succeed in establishing an independent ... designated the PKK a foreign terrorist organization in 1997. U.S.-Turkey relations have faltered since Erdogan renewed calls for the ...
The group began fighting the Turkish state in the early 1980s, originally seeking independence for the Kurds, who are believed to make up about 15 percent or more of Turkey’s population.
In Turkey's Kurdish Heartland, Distrust Erodes Peace Process Hopes By Daren Butler DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey's crackdown on President Tayyip Erdogan's main rival and silence on what ...