When countries respond to refugees and migrants by treating them as invaders, it is, perhaps, only a matter of time...

This week is notable for what didn’t happen. In some cases, the absence of action was predictable. No-one really expected...

"The degree of civilisation in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." So wrote Fyodor Dostoevsky over one...

I couldn’t help wondering if they would have been equally unperturbed if they had been reporting on Hitler’s Germany. That...

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...