China sides with Pakistan and Turkey against India when it suits its interests, but avoids full support to protect its trade ...

Russia and Ukraine are due to hold their first direct peace talks in three years Friday, gathering in Istanbul for Turkish-brokered negotiations, but officials and observers expect them to yield ...

Russia and Ukraine are due to hold their first direct peace talks in three years Friday, gathering in Istanbul for ...

(Brussels, May 16, 2025) - The jailing by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government of a key political opponent is a ...

Power is being centralised through legal means such as referendums, manipulated court rulings and selective prosecutions ...

MUSTAFA KUTLAY is a Senior Lecturer at City St George’s, University of London, a Senior Scholar at Istanbul Policy Center, ...

Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan has probably never held more global sway: he will host the first direct Russia-Ukraine ...

Assad’s regime in December, Syrians who endured more than half a century of state repression and 13 years of civil conflict finally have a reason for optimism.

For Turkey, peace with the PKK now would further reduce a weakened Iran’s ability to project power westward. Some groups ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has ended four decades of armed struggle against the Turkish state. The PKK, which has ...

And it has been deployed by would-be autocrats around the world.

Schools in Turkey are in a bad way under the AKP government. Forced transfers of teachers are happening at so-called “project ...