Kurds

Turkey's jailed pro-Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas was taken to hospital on Monday for tests after collapsing in his cell last week, local officials said.

Thousands of inmates in Turkish prisons ended their mass hunger strike on Sunday, heeding a calling by militant Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan whose jail conditions they were protesting.

Turkey has lifted a ban on lawyer visits to imprisoned Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, the justice minister said on Thursday, reversing an eight-year policy of isolation. 

The bar association in Diyarbakir, Turkey's biggest Kurdish-majority city, on Friday said three police officers should be treated as suspects in the 2015 murder of prominent rights lawyer…

Europe's top rights court on Tuesday called on Turkey to release pro-Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtas, who has been held for two years on terror charges -- a call immediately rejected by…

Germany's Kurdish community said it had been "banned" by Berlin authorities from holding a rally at the Brandenburg Gate during a visit by President Erdogan.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other candidates try to win hearts and minds of Turkey's Kurds whose votes are critical in determining the outcome of June 24 presidential and…

After several days of postponement, the U.N. Security Council finally voted for a 30 days’ ceasefire in Syria. The vote comes after more than a week of horrific bombardments of east Ghouta.…

It took only 10 days for Turkey’s political parties to remain standing in unison behind the military offensive against Kurdish enclave of Afrin in northwestern Syria. Mostly for fear of…

The Turkish president's France visit touched off a mass rally by Kurds in Paris on Saturday to protest the failure of the French authorities to enlighten 2013 killings of three female…