Twenty-three years ago today, Abdullah Öcalan was forced to leave Syria. He began a tour of Europe in search of...

Turkish politics is never restful, but as people sense the possibility of major political change, the run up to the...

Might we be seeing the first steps in the complicated dance that could lead to a political solution to the...

Writing from his cell in Erdine prison, Selahattin Demirtaş has put out an appeal for all opposition groups in Turkey...

Everyone, it seems, is lining up against the Kurdish freedom movement – or, rather, every government. Most people in most...

Every movement has its favourite terminology that becomes normalised to insiders while being less than helpful to those unfamiliar with...

If artillery hits a village and there is no international media there to record it, does it count as war?...

America’s bungled withdrawal after twenty years of catastrophic intervention in Afghanistan has focused attention on their long history of destabilisation...

After Monday’s stark warning from the International Panel on Climate Change, it is tempting to see everything else as a...

Turkey is undergoing a trial by fire, and the flames are illuminating a deeply damaged society as well as a...