The new administration’s first visit to Ankara comes amid an intensifying struggle for the partition of Syria between the states behind the overthrow of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by jihadists led by the al-Qaeda-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey, who turns 71 next month and is in his third decade as the nation’s leader, has an appetite for power that appears as healthy as ever. On Monday, he declared 2025 to be “the year of the family” and unveiled measures aimed at raising the national birth rate.

A fresh drive to bring an end to Turkey’s 40-year Kurdish conflict has seen politicians from the pro-Kurdish party meet jailed leaders

A delegation from one of Turkey's biggest pro-Kurdish political parties has met a leading figure of the Kurdish movement in prison, the latest step in a tentative process to end the country's 40-year conflict.

Although the new Syrian authorities have shown openness toward them, the Kurdish forces, which lead the autonomous entity in the country's northeast, which Turkey has vowed to annihilate, have much to fear from a new deal,

Is new life being breathed into the long-stalled Kurdish peace process in Turkey

Erdoğan pledged to achieve a “terror-free Turkey” through peaceful means if possible, but with force if necessary — an allusion to a proposal from ultranationalists that the imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan be released in exchange for the the ...

Following the Republican People’s Party (CHP), the delegation will meet with representatives of the Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA) and the New Welfare Party (Yeniden Refah Partisi).

As a delegation of lawmakers met figures relevant to Türkiye’s “terror-free initiative” to end the terrorist group PKK on Sunday, the Ministry

The country is going through a new stage in the fight against the PKK with the 'terror-free Türkiye initiative' proposed by a government

ISTANBUL (AP) — A delegation from one of Turkey's biggest pro-Kurdish political ... took place two weeks after DEM members met Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned head of the Kurdistan Workers ...

In a pivotal moment for the new initiative to convince the PKK terrorist group to lay down arms, the PKK-linked Peoples' Equality and Democracy